For a Gender Perspective within the Juvenile Justice System

This volume collects the results of a research called 'The gijjs Project – Gender in the Juvenile Justice System'. Such European agis Programme stems from a prevention plan on 'female' juvenile offending and aims at exploring both quantitative and qualitative aspects of deviance as a whole, as well as at developing appropriate tools both by improving the knowledge and efficacy of current practices and creating new prevention and rehabilitation strategies. The gender analysis of juvenile crime is carried out in a systemic perspective considering such phenomenon under its various and complex factors and their interaction. Moving from the analysis of quantitative information (statistics and doctrine), an integrated research method was applied for these purposes and substantiated by subjective data collected through a biographical approach (past experiences of young offenders, focus groups with practitioners), in view of identifying operational prevention and reintegration strategies in a gender perspective. This volume provides as well with some contributions by international experts upon young girls' delinquency, presented during the Project's final conference. The whole work is addressed to all those dealing with deviancy matters at various levels (i.e. judicial authorities, public and private officers, practitioners in the judicial and criminological field) as well as to all those interested in seeking for appropriate tools, in a gender perspective.