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Female offenders

Australia

• Domestic and dating violence peer education program : a pilot project : final report
  Deirdre Davies, Perth : Women's Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services. 2007
• Victim - offender conferencing : issues of power imbalance for women juvenile participants 
  Rachel Field. Juvenile justice conference : from the lessons of the past to a road map for the future, 2003
• Young women and the criminal justice system 
  Christine Alder, Juvenile justice conference : from the lessons of the past to a road map for the future, 2003
• Gender and official statistics: the juvenile justice system in Queensland, 1998-99 
  Emma Ogilvie, Mark Lynch and Sue Bell, 2000
• The young women's pilot program 
  Mark Watt and Carol Tomnay. Women in corrections : staff and clients conference, 2000
• Young women and juvenile justice : objectives, frameworks and strategies 
  Christine Alder. Juvenile crime and juvenile justice : towards 2000 and beyond, 1997

Other countries

• Girls and offending : patterns, perceptions and interventions
  Elaine Arnull and Susannah Eagle, Youth Justice Board. 2009
• Female juvenile delinquents
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service (US)
• Girls and violence
  University of Glasgow project
• Gender and youth offending (PDF 343kB)
  David Smith and Lesley McAra. The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, 2004
• Female adolescent aggression : a review of the literature and the correlates of aggression>
  Alan W Leschied, Anne Cummings, Michele Van Brunschot, Alison Cunningham and Angela Saunders. Report to the Solicitor General of Canada, 2000
• Exploring diversity : understanding and responding to offending among young women and girls
  Gill McIvor. In M Barry, O Burke, J Connolly and J Curran (eds), Children, young people and crime in Britain and Ireland : from exclusion to inclusion, Scottish Executive, 1998
• Juvenile female offenders : a status of the States report
  Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, US Department of Justice, 1998

Recent publications

• Youth (in)justice: Oral language competence in early life and risk for engagement in antisocial behaviour in adolescence
  12 April 2012
• Technical and background paper: Measuring juvenile recidivism in Australia
  24 May 2011
• What makes juvenile offenders different from adult offenders?
  23 February 2011
• Police diversion of young offenders and Indigenous over-representation
  23 March 2010
• Covert and cyber bullying
  26 February 2010
• Juveniles' contact with the criminal justice system in Australia
  28 September 2009
• Intrafamilial adolescent sex offenders: psychological profile and treatment
  22 July 2009
• Adolescence, pornography and harm
  04 March 2009
• Implementing safer school leavers' celebrations
  22 November 2007
• Targeting youth gangs at a grassroots level
  02 October 2007
• Pre-court diversion in the Northern Territory : impact on juvenile reoffending
  04 June 2007
• Child protection and Indigenous status
  01 August 2006
• Juvenile justice supervision in Australia
  20 June 2006
• Experiences of neglect and abuse amongst juvenile detainees
  14 March 2006
• A micro-simulation model of the juvenile justice system in Queensland
  04 February 2006

Recent events

• Young people, risk and resilience: The challenges of alcohol, drugs and violence conference
  07 March 2011
• Multi-problem risk profiles of youth in custody
  15 February 2011
• The role of schools in crime prevention
  01 October 2002
• Children, Young People and Communities - The Future is in our Hands
  27 March 2001
• Children and crime : victims and offenders
  11 June 1999