Females in the Juvenile Justice System: Who Are They and How Do They Fare?

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• Alternative Title:
  Crime Delinq
• Personal Author:
  Bright, Charlotte Lyn ; Kohl, Patricia L. ; Jonson-Reid, Melissa
• Description:
  Increasing numbers of female youth involved in the juvenile justice system highlight the need to examine this population. This study enumerates distinct profiles of risk and protection among juvenile court-involved females, examining young adult outcomes associated with these profiles. Administrative data on 700 participants were drawn from multiple service sectors in a Midwest metropolitan region. Latent class and Pearson chi-square analyses were used. Five unique classes were identified; these classes were associated with young adult outcomes. One class of impoverished African American females was most likely to experience problematic young adult outcomes but least likely to have received juvenile justice services. Findings highlight the heterogeneity in the female juvenile court population and discrepancies between service needs and service receipt.
• Subjects:
  Article Gender Juvenile Justice Latent Class Analysis Outcomes Profiles
• Source:
  Crime Delinq. 2011; 60(1):106-125
• Pubmed ID:
  24683203
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3965180
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 CE001190/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; R01 MH061733/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  60
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:381138eccbb5578a694341ab1f77a157754f333b58c66dc003905f28be4825c3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/41948/cdc_41948_DS1.pdf
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