This article reviews 30 European studies on risk factors for delinquency in adolescent and
young adult females. Risk factors are compared with those for (adolescent) male …

Although research has established an offending/victimization overlap and that offenders and
victims share similar characteristics, much less work has examined the longitudinal …

Although boys engage in more delinquent and criminal acts than do girls, female
delinquency is on the rise. In 1980, boys were four times as likely as girls to be arrested; …

The empirical and theoretical knowledge base on criminal careers is heavily influenced by
data on boys and men. What pathways do women follow in and out of crime through their …

Ce manuel de psycho-criminologie à l'usage des étudiants et praticiens examine les
mécanismes sociaux et psychologiques conduisant certains individus au passage à l'acte …

Purpose Measures of adolescent psychopathy have yet to be examined in offending
trajectory studies. This may explain why identifying etiological differences between …

Purpose While violent crime among females has nearly doubled, research on crime still
tends to focus on male offending. To better understand the developmental patterns of female …

A concern that emerged from the case studies in Dawson et al.(2012), as well as from the
lead author's experience as the Principal Investigator of the Incarcerated Serious and …

Purpose This paper aims to refine our understanding of life course offending patterns across
gender and race/ethnicity and to advance work in this area by examining how gender and …

Serious and violent offending among juveniles is a consistent concern of researchers,
practitioners, and policymakers, yet the development of violent offending remains poorly …