NOT SO NICE GIRLS' DELINQUENCY ISSUES -- NOT SO NICE GIRLS' DELINQUENCY ISSUES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 THE GIRLS STUDY GROUP - CHARTING THE WAY TO DELINQUENCY PREVENTION FOR GIRLS -- Violence by Teenage Girls: Trends and Context -- Causes and Correlates of Girls' Delinquency -- Resilient Girls-Factors that Protect against Delinquency -- Suitability of Assessment Instruments for Delinquent Girls -- Girls' Delinquency Programs- An Evidence-Based Review -- Developmental Sequences of Girls' Delinquent Behavior -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 THE FEMALE JUVENILE OFFENDER IN HAWAII -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Study Purpose -- Methods -- Gender and Juvenile Delinquency in Hawaii -- Gender Differences in Hawaii's Juvenile Arrests -- Predicting Adjudication -- Case File Analysis -- Age and Offense Characteristics -- Ethnicity and Circuit Court, by Gender -- Social, Psychological, Family, and Academic Characteristics -- Predicting Runaway Arrests -- HYCF Girls and Non-HYCF Girls -- Summary: A Profile of the Female Juvenile Offender -- Policy Recommendations -- References -- Appendix A. Documents Analyzed -- Appendix B: Coding Definitions -- End Notes -- Chapter 3 JUVENILE JUSTICE: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND BETTER DEFINED EVALUATION PLANS WILL HELP TO IMPROVE GIRLS' DELINQUENCY PROGRAMS -- Results in Brief -- Background -- OJJDP Established the Girls Study Group to Assess the Effectiveness of Girls' Delinquency Programs -- OJJDP Efforts to Assess Program Effectiveness Were Consistent with Social Science Practices and Standards, and OJJDP Has Taken Action to Enhance Its Communication about Study Group Activities and Findings with External Stakeholders.

In Response to Study Group Findings of No Evidence of Effective Girls' Delinquency Programs, OJJDP Plans Technical Assistance to Help Programs but Could Strengthen Its Plans for Supporting Evaluations -- Conclusions -- Recommendation for Executive Action -- Agency Comments and Our Evaluation -- Comments from the Department of Justice -- GAO's Mission -- End Notes -- Chapter 4 RESILIENT GIRLS - FACTOR THAT PROTECT AGAINST DELINQUENCY -- Defining Resilience -- Background -- Developing the Study -- Girls Study Group Members -- Developmental Perspective -- The Current Study -- Data Source -- Analyzing the Survey Data -- Findings -- Study Limitations -- Implications -- Conclusion -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 5 VIOLENCE BY TEENAGE GIRLS: TRENDS AND CONTEXT -- Trends in Girls' Violence -- Data Sources -- Girls Study Group Members -- Trends in Arrests for Violent Offenses: UCR Data -- Limitations -- Trends in Self-Reported Assaults: Monitoring the Future Data -- Context of Girls' Violence -- Context Defined -- Violence against Family Members -- Violence in Schools -- Poverty and Disorganized Communities -- Girls and Gangs -- Membership -- Delinquent Activity -- Risk Factors -- Conclusions -- What We Know About Girls and Violence -- Trends -- Context -- What We Need To Know -- References -- Acknowledgments -- End Notes -- INDEX -- Blank Page.