Young people and crime

Female offenders

Australia

• 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
• Victorian juvenile justice review
  Andrew Day, Kevin Howells and Debra Rickwood, 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

• 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