Criminology Research Council grant ; (37/76)
The report of this research of 200 pages incorporates the detailed results of the psychological assessment of 67 delinquent and 56 non-delinquent adolescent girls. The main aim of the research was to explore the use of a non-metric multidimensional scaling technique to uncover the principal dimensions used by female adolescent offenders to structure their 'person world' and to investigate the usefulness of this technique in providing an instrument for differential diagnosis within the adolescent group and a means of measuring change through treatment. Significant differences were found between delinquent and non-delinquent girls, and the intensive treatment program applying these results to delinquent girls produced the remarkably low recidivism rate of 2.5 per cent.