Children living in homes where intimate partner violence occurs are often exposed to such
violence through witnessing, seeing its effects, hearing about it, or otherwise being made …

The proportion of the juvenile justice population that comprises females is increasing, yet
few evidence-based models have been evaluated and implemented with girls in the juvenile …

Among juvenile offenders, those who commit the greatest number and the most violent
offenses are referred to as serious, violent, and chronic (SVC) offenders. However, current …

Scholarship in criminology over the last few decades has often left little room for research
and theory on how female offenders are perceived and handled in the criminal justice …

Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United
States who were followed over a twenty-year period as they grew to adulthood. In-depth …

Why do people commit crimes? How do we control crime? The theories that criminologists
use to answer these questions are built on a number of underlying assumptions, including …

Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United
States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the …

Although qualitative research has informed Pathways Theory for decades, there are few
quantitative studies that have explored this theory. This study utilizes a path analytic …

The study of gender and crime has grown exponentially over the past 40 years, but in some
fundamental respects, it remains underdeveloped. Few scholars have considered both the …

In this article, we investigate sex differences in the relationship between peers and
delinquency. We analyse to what extent peers have different effects on delinquency among …