CRG Report Number
1797-8
Criminology Research Council grant ; (17/97-8)
The research project had two objectives: to investigate the nature of young women's offending; and to examine young women's accounts of their experiences of the juvenile justice system. Two reports were produced, one for each of these objectives. Data analysed in the project came from two sources: Victorian Children's Court Statistics (1990-96) and interviews with forty-eight young women in the juvenile justice system in Victoria and South Australia. It is hoped that this information will assist in the development of policy and practice to meet the needs of young women in the juvenile justice system.