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Jacques Dayan: the puzzle of female juvenile delinquency: an open field for research

Compared with their male peers, girls commit few delinquent acts. But crimes and misdemeanors are not the only expression of violence and transgression that girls must deal with, either actively or passively. The various forms raise the question of whether certain modes of violent or non-violent transgression are specific to females and how they should be handled by the social welfare and judicial systems. This semiological puzzle is an open field for new research.

Adolescence, 2018, 36, 1, 13-21.