A Qualitative Examination of the Self-Medicating Hypothesis Among Female Juvenile Offenders

The increasing proportion of girls in the juvenile justice system has prompted courts to develop gender-responsive services. The present study examined data from a mid-sized county juvenile court to examine the effects of a group home intervention for girls. The study compared group home participants ( n = 172) with girls who did not receive group home treatment ( n = 814) using propensity score matching (PSM). Girls who received group home treatment were significantly less likely to re-offend in the 2-year follow-up period. Policy and practice implications for gender-responsive services as well as future directions for research are discussed.

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The Relationship Between Trauma, Recidivism Risk, and Reoffending in Male and Female Juvenile Offenders

Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma ◽

10.1007/s40653-018-0238-4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 351-364 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nina A. Vitopoulos ◽

Michele Peterson-Badali ◽

Shelley Brown ◽

Tracey A. Skilling

Keyword(s):

Juvenile Offenders ◽

Female Juvenile Offenders ◽

Male And Female ◽

Trauma Recidivism ◽

The Relationship

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A Cluster-Analytic Investigation of MMPI Profiles of Serious Male and Female Juvenile Offenders

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry ◽

10.1097/01.chi.0000046877.27264.f6 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 42 (7) ◽

pp. 770-777 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Dorothy L. Espelage ◽

Elizabeth Cauffman ◽

Lisa Broidy ◽

Alex R. Piquero ◽

Paul Mazerolle ◽

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Keyword(s):

Juvenile Offenders ◽

Analytic Investigation ◽

Female Juvenile Offenders ◽

Male And Female ◽

Cluster Analytic

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Risk-Need Profiles of Serious and Chronic Female Juvenile Offenders: Implications for Female Juvenile Correctional Programming

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ◽

10.1177/0306624x17735055 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 62 (9) ◽

pp. 2742-2758 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Chiquitia Welch-Brewer

Keyword(s):

Juvenile Offenders ◽

Drug Use ◽

Latent Profile Analysis ◽

Profile Analysis ◽

Family Relationship ◽

Treatment Needs ◽

Female Juvenile Offenders ◽

Alcohol And Drug Use ◽

Emotional Processes ◽

Psychosocial Profiles

Understanding differences and similarities between male and female juvenile offenders is critically important for determining the treatment needs of each group. Less is known, however, about the similarities and differences among female juvenile offenders and the variation in their needs, risks, and psychosocial profiles. Understanding the variation among female juvenile offenders could lead to improvements in gender-responsive interventions and treatment. Latent profile analysis was conducted to construct risk-need profiles in a state-based sample of incarcerated girls ( N = 203) based on a range of psychosocial subscales covering family, peer, school and cognitive and emotional processes, psychopathology, and antisocial outcomes. Findings revealed four distinct groups/profiles with varying levels of risk-needs— Aggression Only (51%), Alcohol and Drug Use (19%), Socioemotional and Family Relationship Problems (24%), and Severe Alcohol and Drug Use (6%)—warranting the need for varying levels of treatment intensity and different treatment components across subgroups, ranging from less to more extensive.

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It’s Wrong, but that’s the Way it is. Youth, Violence and Justice in North-Eastern Brazil

Social & Legal Studies ◽

10.1177/0964663920915967 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 096466392091596

Author(s):

Peter Anton Zoettl

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Juvenile Offenders ◽

Youth Violence ◽

The State ◽

The Self ◽

Cycle Of Violence ◽

Vicious Cycle ◽

Eastern Brazil ◽

North Eastern ◽

Large Sections

This article discusses the vertiginous proliferation of violence suffered and perpetrated by juveniles in the state of Bahia, north-eastern Brazil. Based on documentary and ethnographic evidence, it anatomizes the workings of law enforcement, juvenile justice and juvenile custody. It argues that the strategies of the police, the criminologies put into practice by the judiciary and the functioning of Youth Detention Centres collaborate to foster, rather than curb, youth offending and the violence committed by and against young citizens. Whereas prosecution and the dispensation of justice emphasize juvenile offenders’ responsibility for their ‘decision’ to become a ‘bandit’, juvenile custody, as a result of deep-rooted clientelist practices, is dominated by precarious conditions of incarceration which promote internal violence and the (self)ascription of a deviant juvenile identity. At the same time, the Othering of large sections of youth from the urban periphery has fuelled a vicious cycle of violence and counter-violence between members of drug factions and police forces, resulting in an increasing illegibility of the state at its margins.

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