Traumatized Girls in the Juvenile Justice System

Dating violence and girls in the juvenile justice system.

The purpose of this study is to explore the prevalence and associated behaviors of dating violence among a population of girls in the juvenile justice system. A sample of 590 girls from an urban juvenile justice system completed a questionnaire assessing attitudes and self-efficacy about and occurrence of dating violence. The analysis developed a random effect model to determine a risk profile ...

Development of the Juvenile Justice Anger Management Treatment for Girls.

Female juvenile offenders exhibit high levels of anger, relational aggression, and physical aggression, but the population has long been ignored in research and practice. No anger management treatments have been developed specifically for this population, and no established anger management treatments are empirically supported for use with delinquent girls. Thus, to alleviate anger and reduce t...

Adolescent Girls with Mental Health Disorders Involved with the Juvenile Justice System

justice system is also reflected in other areas. In 1997, most girls who were adjudicated delinquent were placed on probation (60%) or in a residential setting (22%). Between 1988 and 1997, the number of cases resulting in probation or residential placement increased by over 100 percent, and the number of female cases that involved detention increased by 65 percent, surpassing the increase in d...

A Better Way to Spend $500,000: How the Juvenile Justice System Fails Girls

* Marty Beyer, Ph.D. received her doctorate in clinical/community psychology from Yale University. Dr. Beyer has evaluated many girls in juvenile court who faced long adult sentences, concentrating on how their unique cognitive, moral, and identity development and trauma affected their offenses and should influence the services designed for them. She is also a child welfare consultant and has p...

Incarcerated Girls’ Physical Health: Can the Juvenile Justice System Help to Reduce Long-Term Health Costs?