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- Ahonen, Lia, 1976-, et al.
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The challenge of parenting girls in neighborhoods of different perceived quality
- 2014
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Ingår i: Societies. - : MDPI AG. - 2075-4698. ; 4:3, s. 414-427
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is well-known that disadvantaged neighborhoods, as officially identifiedthrough census data, harbor higher numbers of delinquent individuals than advantagedneighborhoods. What is much less known is whether parents’ perception of the neighborhoodproblems predicts low parental engagement with their girls and, ultimately, how this isrelated to girls’ delinquency, including violence. This paper elucidates these issues byexamining data from the Pittsburgh Girls Study, including parent-report of neighborhoodproblems and level of parental engagement and official records and girl-reporteddelinquency at ages 15, 16, and 17. Results showed higher stability over time forneighborhood problems and parental engagement than girls’ delinquency. Parents’ perceptionof their neighborhood affected the extent to which parents engaged in their girls’ lives,but low parental engagement did not predict girls being charged for offending at age 15, 16or 17. These results were largely replicated for girls’ self-reported delinquency with theexception that low parental engagement at age 16 was predictive of the frequency of girls’self-reported delinquency at age 17 as well. The results, because of their implications forscreening and early interventions, are relevant to policy makers as well as practitioners.
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- Ahonen, Lia, 1976-, et al.
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What is the Hidden Figure of Delinquency in Girls? : Scaling Up From Police Charges to Self-Reports
- 2017
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Ingår i: Victims & Offenders. - : Routledge. - 1556-4886 .- 1556-4991. ; 12:5, s. 761-776
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on males shows discrepancies between official records and self-reports of delinquency, thus creating a scaling-up factor. Comparable information for girls is still needed. We investigated discrepancies (scaling up factors) from official records to selfreports in a large sample of girls between ages 12 and 17 (N = 2,450). On average there were three self-reported juvenile female offenders for every individual charged by the police, and for every police charge there were four offenses that were committed. The scaling-up factor was highest in early adolescence, indicating that female offenders at a young age were more likely to stay undetected by the police. The scaling-up factor was significantly lower for African American than white girls: a higher proportion of African American delinquent girls were charged by the police. Racial differences in scaling up were significant only for prevalence, not for frequency of offending. Knowledge about scaling-up factors is important for the design and implementation of intervention programs. We discuss racial differences, implications for justice administration, and practical implications for intervention science.
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- Loeber, Rolf, et al.
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Constancy and Change in the Prevalence and Frequency of Offending When Based on Longitudinal Self-reports or Official Records : Comparisons by Gender, Race, and Crime Type
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of developmental life-course criminology. - Heidelberg, Germany : Springer. - 2199-465X .- 2199-4641. ; 1:2, s. 150-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: The study examines age-crime prevalence and age-crime frequency curves based on longitudinal data from boys in the Pittsburgh Youth Study and girls in the Pittsburgh Girls Study.Results: Results show that the prevalence of the age-crime curve for theft and violence (based on self-reports or police charges) followed the typical age-crime curve for males and slightly less distinctly for females, with the peak of offending occurring earlier for self-reports than for police charges. The decrease in police charges for violence and theft took place at an earlier age for females than males, but this was not distinct when self-reported delinquency was the criterion. The mean frequency of self-reported theft and violence followed the age-crime curve for males but not for females, who showed a mean frequency of offending which was more constant. In contrast, the mean frequency of police charges increased with age for males and females. Comparing African- American and Caucasian males and females shows a higher prevalence but not a higher mean frequency of self-reported offending.Conclusions: The results are reviewed in the light of other studies, and the policy implications of the findings are discussed.
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