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Abstract

This article provides an overview of the role gender plays in juvenile justice processing. It reviews national data on girls’ arrest patterns and links those patterns to girls’ underlying needs and trauma histories. The article then focuses on the increase in arrests of girls for domestic assaults and describes the experience of Washoe County, Nevada, where girls were detained disproportionately for domestic battery as a result of a mandatory detention law. The article goes on to describe Nevada’s successful effort to amend that law to increase discretion and mandate family services and the resulting improvements in services to girls experiencing family-based violence.

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Sherman_reframing_the_response.pdf
7 Sep 2022
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  • Subject
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination

    • Domestic Law

    • Health Law and Policy

    • Juvenile Law

  • Journal title
    • Juvenile and Family Justice Today

  • Pagination
    • 16-20

  • Date submitted

    7 September 2022