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Girls



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Web site Crime & Delinquency, Volume 55, Number 2, April 2009
Detention Reform and Girls: Challenges and Solutions, NJJN Fact Sheet, 2005
Documentary: Girl Trouble
Ethnic and Gender Equity in Missouri Juvenile Court Decisions: Preliminary Findings, National Council on Crime and Delinquincy, September 2004
Fact Sheet on Girls and Women in Custody, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 2007
Fact Sheet: Girls in Juvenile Justice, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, February 2009
Girls in the Juvenile Justice System, NJJN Policy Platform, August 2009
Girls Research Index, NJJN
Web site Girls Study Group Web site, Research Triangle Institute
In Ohio, Inmate Mothers Care for Babies In Prison, Steve Inskeep, Morning Edition, National Public Radio, August 13, 2008
Introduction to the National Girls's Health Screen Project, Juvenile Law Center
National Center for Girls and Young Women Opens in Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville.com, October 16, 2008
Poly-victimization Among Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: Manifestations & Associations to Delinquency, National Institute of Justice, Dana D. DeHart, October 2009
Resilient Girls: Factors that Protect Against Delinquency, Girls Study Group Report, OJJDP, December 2008
Suitability of Assessment Instruments for Delinquent Girls, Susan Brumbaugh, Jennifer L. Hardison Walters, and Laura A. Winterfield, Girls Study Group, October 2009
The Girls Study Group: Charting the Way to Delinquency Prevention for Girls, Girls Study Group Report, OJJDP, December 2008
Violence by Teenage Girls: Trends and Context, Girls Study Group Report, OJJDP, May 2008
What Does It Mean to Design Services to Fit Girls?, Margaret Beyer, 2005


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Minority youth are 1.4 times more likely to be sentenced to the California Youth Authority by adult courts than are similarly offending white youth. [more facts]


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