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Understanding Girls' Pathways to Desistance: Insights from Juvenile Justice Study

This study delves into serious adolescent offenders, focusing on girls, to unravel the desistance process through individual maturation, life changes, and systems involvement. It aims to enhance juvenile justice policies with targeted interventions and risk assessment. The research spans over eight years in Philadelphia and Phoenix, involving 1,355 felony offenders aged 14-18, including females and adult transfer cases. Gender differences in victimization, mental health, substance abuse, and offending behaviors are explored, shedding light on chronic female offenders who exhibit distinct psychosocial traits, impulsivity, victimization tendencies, and mental health challenges.

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Understanding Girls' Pathways to Desistance: Insights from Juvenile Justice Study

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  1. The Pathways Girls

  2. Pathways to DesistanceSupported by • Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention • National Institute of Justice • National Institute on Drug Abuse • John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation • William Penn Foundation • William T. Grant Foundation • Pennsylvania Commission on Crime & Delinquency • Arizona Governor’s Justice Commission

  3. Study Goals • Richer information about serious adolescent offenders • Understand the desistance process • Individual maturation • Life changes • Systems involvement • Improved practice and policy in juvenile justice • Risk assessment • Targeted interventions and sanctions

  4. Study Design • Two sites • Philadelphia and Phoenix • Enroll serious adolescent offenders • 1,355 felony offenders, aged 14 -18 • Females and adult transfer cases • Regular interviews over eight years • Initial interviews • Time point interviews • Release interviews • Other sources of information • Collateral interviews • Official records

  5. Who are these girls?

  6. Prevalence of Placements Over 3 Years Youths may have experienced multiple placements over the 3 year follow-up

  7. Gender Differences in History of Victimization Percent at Baseline

  8. Gender Differences in Mental Health and Substance Abuse

  9. Gender Differences in Self-Reported Offending

  10. Are there chronic female offenders? Number of Time Points Re-Offended

  11. Are Chronic Female Offenders Different From Girls Who Do Not Offend Chronically? • There is heterogeneity among these girls….. • Chronic Female Offenders are more likely to be…. • Less psychosocially immature • Less future oriented • Less responsible • Less able to consider others • More impulsive • More likely to be a victim of violence • More likely to have anxiety and a diagnosis of PTSD • More likely to have a drug dependence disorder

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