Terry April N, Lockwood Ashley, Steele Morgan, Milner Megan
Fort Hays State University, KS, USA.
University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA.
Crime Delinq. 2023 Apr;69(4):777-797. doi: 10.1177/00111287211022629. Epub 2021 Jun 4.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, girls and women represented one of the fastest growing populations within the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Since the spread of COVID-19, suggestions were provided to juvenile justice bodies, encouraging a reduction of youth arrests, detainments, and quicker court processing. Yet, the research comparing peri-COVID-19 changes for girls and boys is lacking, with an oversight to gender trends and rural and urban differences. This study used Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center (JIAC) data from a rural Midwestern state to look at rural and urban location trends for both boys and girls. Results suggest rural communities are responding differently to girls' behaviors, revealing a slower decline in intakes compared to boys and youth in urban areas.
在新冠疫情大流行之前,女孩和妇女是青少年及刑事司法系统中增长最快的群体之一。自新冠疫情蔓延以来,有人向青少年司法机构提出建议,鼓励减少对青少年的逮捕、拘留,并加快法庭审理程序。然而,缺乏对新冠疫情期间女孩和男孩变化情况的比较研究,忽视了性别趋势以及城乡差异。本研究使用了美国中西部一个农村州的青少年 intake 和评估中心(JIAC)的数据,来研究男孩和女孩在农村和城市地区的趋势。结果表明,农村社区对女孩行为的反应有所不同,与城市地区的男孩和青少年相比,女孩的 intake 下降速度较慢。