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Essay on The Rise in Female Juvenile Delinquency
Female juvenile offenders symbolize misunderstood, understudied inhabitants within the juvenile justice system. A system that traditionally has considered the anti-social behavior of adolescent males, the juvenile justice system has been challenged with addressing the decade-long rise in the number of adolescent females in the juvenile justice system. For the last decade, juvenile justice professionals have focused on how to address the needs of female adolescents in the juvenile justice system. When focusing on differences in offending behaviors, the role of relationships in the overall development of adolescent females is an important one for practitioners, administrators, policy-makers and decision-makers.
How adolescent females view relationships, particularly negative relationships; adolescent females' attitudes and perceptions about others; the meanings they place on their relationship experiences; and how these experiences shape their current relationships are critical questions regarding adolescent females' relationship histories. The trauma many of them experience provokes their understanding of interpersonal relationships and their own coping mechanisms. Relationships represent sources of both joy and pain for adolescent females. Healthy relationships can boost their self-esteem and self-confidence, whereas negative relationships can foster a form of aggression known as relational aggression, in which adolescent females try to hurt others in response to their pain.( Morgan, M. and S.R. Peters. 2000)
As a result, the rationale of this article is to define the significance of associations in increasing healthy and harmful outcomes for juvenile females, for the most part the role of relationships in the development of female juvenile delinquency Practitioners decision-makers and policy-makers need the tools to develop relationship-based interventions that represent the foundation for gender-specific programming for adolescent females. These tools can help out reduce the incidence of offending behaviors and the level of involvement of adolescent females in the juvenile justice system......
