Late-Adolescent Delinquency: Risks and Resilience for Girls Differing in Risk at the Start of Adolescence

Based on resilience and feminist criminological theories, several individual, family, and community characteristics were hypothesized to predict late-adolescent delinquency for girls varying in early-adolescent risk. Girls aged 12 and 13 were interviewed each year as part of the National Longitudina...

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Published in:Youth & society 2011-12, Vol.43 (4), p.1433-1458
Main Authors: Andersen, Tia S., Morash, Merry, Park, Suyeon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent girls
Adolescents
At Risk Persons
Child development
Childrearing Practices
Community Characteristics
Crime
Criminology
Delinquency
Early Adolescents
Family
Family Characteristics
Females
Feminism
Feminist Theory
Girls
Institutionalized Persons
Interviews
Juvenile delinquency
Minority Groups
Poverty
Prediction
Prevention
Prisoners
Protective factors
Relatives
Resilience
Resilience (Psychology)
Risk
Risk assessment
Risk Factors
School Safety
Socioeconomic factors
Teenagers
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Summary:Based on resilience and feminist criminological theories, several individual, family, and community characteristics were hypothesized to predict late-adolescent delinquency for girls varying in early-adolescent risk. Girls aged 12 and 13 were interviewed each year as part of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Predictors of late-adolescent delinquency were compared for girls in and below the top 10% in self-reported early-adolescent delinquency. Girls who were higher in delinquency in early adolescence were resilient by 2002 if they had no incarcerated family members and high parental monitoring. Girls with little or no early delinquency were at risk for illegal activity by age 17 primarily due to contextual adversities, low hope for the future, poverty status, and minority racial status. Persistently delinquent girls require programming to address multiple risk and protective factors over an extended time. To prevent delinquency beginning later in adolescence, girls need safe community and school contexts.
ISSN:0044-118X
1552-8499
DOI:10.1177/0044118X10386078