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Gender Differences in Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Processing

Evidence From National Data

University of Texas at Dallas, drptracy{at}airmail.net

Kimberly Kempf-Leonard

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Stephanie Abramoske-James

University of Texas at Dallas

This article traces the historical coverage of the gender issue in the criminological literature. It also provides contemporary empirical evidence about differences and similarities between girls and boys with respect to juvenile crime and to processing by the juvenile justice system, by analyzing several national juvenile crime data series, all of which have been recently updated. This research has produced numerous results that indicate that female and male delinquents possess more similarities than differences concerning arrest rates, arrest statistics, juvenile court data, and juvenile corrections data.

Key Words: gender • female and male delinquents • arrests • court dispositions

This version was published on April 1, 2009

Crime & Delinquency, Vol. 55, No. 2, 171-215 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0011128708330628


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