The specific character of girls’ delinquency seems to result more from the impasses and practices of the judicial system and other institutions, which seem particularly gender-based. Using a clinical study of a young woman who has been a delinquent since the age of sixteen, we will try raise awareness of an ethics respecting the subject : an analysis without a prior prescription, which is as faithful as possible to the event, the way it was experienced, and the context in which it occurred.

Adolescence, 2018, 36, 1, 47-56.