Identifying Gender Differences in an Australian Youth Offender Population

Stephane M. Shepherd, Stefan Luebbers and Mairead Dolan

SAGE Open, 2013, vol. 3, issue 2, 2158244013492082

Abstract: The study examined gender differences in risk factors for violence in a sample of 213 male and female youths held in Youth Justice Centres in Victoria, Australia. Although violence risk factors are considered to be commensurate across gender, a growing body of international literature is categorizing gender-specific criminal trajectories. The study aimed to investigate this concept in an Australian juvenile context. Through the use of a widely validated youth violence risk assessment inventory, the prevalence of salient risk items was compared across gender. Young female offenders were found to present with higher levels of family dysfunction, peer rejection and self-injurious behavior reflecting international female offending pathways literature.

Keywords: gender; risk assessment; juvenile; violence; recidivism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/2158244013492082

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