Resilient Girls -- Factors That Protect Against Delinquency
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Feb. 12, 2009
ANNOTATION: This "Bulletin examines a select number of factors that research suggests may 'protect' girls who are at risk for becoming delinquent" (p. 2) Sections contained in this publication include: background -- developing the study; the current study; findings according to protective factors and female delinquency, effects of protective factors on delinquent or criminal behavior, and how childhood risk factors and protective factors in adolescence interact to produce or prevent delinquent behavior; study limitations; implications; and conclusion. "The most consistent protective effect assessed in this study [i]s the extent to which a girl felt she had caring adults in her life" (p. 9).