Female Specific Library

A primary goal of Juvenile Justice Vision 20/20 is to educate others and share information about juvenile justice.  One current issue facing the juvenile justice system is female-specific programming and other issues involving female offenders.  Feel free to check out the following resources that directly address females and juvenile justice:

 

Girls
A Boy's Life
A Wake-Up Call
Addressing Barriers to Using Respite Beds for Girls Charged with Domestic Violence
Adolescent Brain Development
Annotated Bibliography
Appropriate Programming for Female Offenders
Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do
Biological Differences Summary
Blind Discretion: Girls of Color & Delinquency in the Juvenile Justice System
Breaking New Ground
Caught in the Net
Causes and Correlates of Girls' Delinquency
The Challenges for Women Offenders Trying to Succeed in the Community
Changing Conversations
Changing Perceptions of the Etiology of Crime
Cook County: A Plan for Juvenile Female Offenders
Cook County Juvenile Female Offender Risk Assessment Study
Cook County Juvenile Female Offender Project
Cook County Juvenile Female Offender Project Overview
Dealing with Authority Figures
Definition of Gender-Specific Programming for Girls
Enhancing Opportunities for Michigan's Girls and Young Women
Equity for Girls
Fact Sheet: City Girls Program
Fact Sheet: Girls and Juvenile Justice
Female Adolescent Aggression
Female Gangs: A Focus on Research
Female Genital Mutilation Cutting in the United States
Female Responsive Resource List
Female Responsive Services - Value Statements
Female Sexual Abusers: A Theory of Loss
Females in the Juvenile Justice System
Gender Injustice: System-Level Juvenile Justice Reform
Gender Response Strategies
Gender-Responsive Supervision and Programming for Women Offenders
Gender-Specific Programming for Female Offenders
Gender-Specific Programming for Girls
Gender-Specific Programming
Gender-Specific Services for Court-Involved Girls
Gender-Specific Treatment Rationale
Girls and Crime
Girls Count
Girls and Delinquency: Using Research to Develop Good Practice
Girls, Status Offenses and the Need for a Less Punitive and More Empowering Approach
Give Girls a Competitive Edge
YJAM
Guidelines for Juvenile Female Specific Programs
Guiding Principles for Promising Female Programming
He Thinks, She Thinks
How Can Case Managers Help Girls
How Men's Brains are Wired Differently Than Women's
How to Implement Guidelines for Effective Gender-Responsive Programming
In Harm's Way
Incorporating the Voice of Parents
Intermediate Sanctions for Women Offenders
Interventions: City Women
Interview Questions Based on the Five Female Responsive Values
Investing in Girls
Investing in Girls: A 21st Century Strategy
Justice By Gender
Juvenile Female Offenders: How Do You Meet Their Needs in Your Juvenile Justice Setting?
The Mean Girls: Nasty and Vengeful from an Early Age
Mentoring Guide for Life Skills
The Myth of Mean Girls
The New Girls Movement: Implications for Youth Programs

The New Girls Movement: Implications for Youth Programs

Nuts and Bolts of Gender Responsive Programming
Power and Identity: Group Therapy for Female Delinquents
Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls
Research on Women and Girls in the Justice System
Resilient Girls
Resource Lists
Resources Identified at NICs Female Offender Training Program
Responding to Women Offenders on a Personal Level
Responding to Women Offenders_Equitable Does Not Mean Identical
The Signs are There: Girls and Juvenile Justice in Wayne County
Stages in the Treatment: Accountability Continuum of Care
Stereotypes in Culture and Media
Talking Circles
Telling Our Stories and Changing Our Lives
Trauma Among Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
We Can Do Better: Helping Prostituted Women and Girls in Grand Rapids
What About Girls
What is Gender-Specific Programming for Girls?
Who and Why: Prostitution Round Table
Why Battered Women Stay: Some Reflections
Why Young Girls Die Behind Bars
Wired Differently
Women and Girls
Women and the Criminal Justice System: Gender Matters
Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being
Working with Girls: Meeting the Challenge
Working with Multiple Problem Youth-Families

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