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Antecedents of Violent Behavior: Early Childhood Trauma in the Lives of Adolescent Female Offenders [Qualitative Studies in Crime and Justice, volume 2]
Judith Anne Ryder
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2008, 220 pages
ISBN: 137
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This study uses grounded theory to analyze interviews with 24 adolescent female offenders who were adjudicated and remanded to custody in New York State for assault or robbery. The secondary analysis is based on data from a NIDA-financed study that assessed the links between drug involvement and youth violence through semi-structured interviews. Detailed findings from the lives of a subset of the 51 young women who participated in the original NIDA study are used to construct a model for understanding violence among this group of adolescent females.

The trauma associated with disrupted parental attachment and an accumulation of early childhood loss and victimization, combined with minimal parental support and supervision, contributed to the use of maladaptive coping strategies and shifted the pathways of these young women into violent delinquency.

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