Delinquency and Violence Among Girls

Frabutt, James M.; White, Jacquelyn W.

doi:10.15365/joce.0504092013

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“…In terms of implications for policy, the findings from the present study suggest that policies promoting or fostering resiliency might be more effective if they were general in nature (vs. gender-specific). In contrast to suggestions that a "one size fits all" approach is ineffective at reducing delinquency (see Frabutt & White, 2002, MacKinnon-Lewis et al, 2002, programs or efforts to instill resiliency among individuals in high-risk environments can target the development and sustainment of certain protective factors regardless of the individual's gender. It would likely follow that these polices or programs would be less complex given that males and females do not significantly differ in the factors they utilize to remain resilient.…”

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Exploring the Gender Differences in Protective Factors

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Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Understanding the causes of why individuals desist from or are resilient to delinquency and drug use has become a salient social concern. Much research has centered on the effects that protective factors possess in fostering resiliency but that research has not fully explored how the effects of protective factors might vary across gender. Using a sample of 711 individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Child-Mother data set, the authors investigate how individual protective factors vary across gender on two measures of resiliency that document the lack of involvement in serious delinquency and drug use. They also examine whether the accumulation of protective factors varies across gender in fostering resiliency. The findings suggest that although males and females rely on different individual protective factors to foster resiliency, the accumulation of protective factors appears to be equally important for males and females in promoting resiliency. The authors discuss theoretical and policy implications.

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confidence: 91%