National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center

Girls and Boys and Violence

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Articles

• Datasets on Physical Fighting Among Youth
• Physical Fighting Facts and Statistics
• Advising Parents About Protecting Children from Gang Involvement
• Responding to a Potentially Violent Student
• Violence Against Teachers
• Risk Factors for Youth Violence

Fact Sheets

• Gangs Fact Sheet
• Intimate Partner and Family Violence Fact Sheet

Best Bets

• Harvard University, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center
  The Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center (HYVPC) is one of ten National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An interdisciplinary center in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Pub
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• US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
  

External Resources

• Female Youths and Delinquent Behaviors
  This report summarizes the findings of the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which provides data about drug use and delinquent behavior in female youths. Federal Partner: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
• Girls and Violence
  This is a publication that reviews the growing trend of girls involved in delinquency and crime.
  Federal Partner: U.S. Department of Education
• Research on Women and Girls in the Justice System (PDF 293 KB)
  This publication includes three papers that examine the relationship between violence against women and female criminality, prostitution and sex workers as victims as well as defendants, and the relationship between child abuse and neglect and later criminality among females.
  Federal Partner: U.S. Department of Justice
• Female Juvenile Delinquents, Guiding Principles in Promising Female Programming
  This publication outlines the promising practices in programming for girls who are already involved in the juvenile justice system or those who are at risk of delinquency. The report also provides a profile of female juvenile offenders, the problems they present, their needs, and the need to address them.
  Federal Partner: U.S. Department of Justice
• National Women's Health Information Center
  This Federal Web site offers a section on girls' health issues including healthy relationships behavior and bullying, as well as a section on violence against women.
  Federal Partner: National Women's Health Information Center
• Boys and Girls Encounter Different Drug Offers, Use Different Refusal Strategies,
  from NIDA Notes, Research Findings, Volume 15, Number 4
  This research paper discusses gender differences in drug offers and refusal strategies.
  Federal Partner: National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
• Violent Neighborhoods, Violent Kids (PDF 377 KB)
  This bulletin presents the findings of research conducted by LINC (a small interdisciplinary research center). The research examined the types of delinquent behavior found among boys living in three violent neighborhoods in Washington, DC and the role of basic institutions such as families, schools, churches, and youth- serving organizations in those boys' lives.
  Federal Partner: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice

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The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Last Updated: 4/18/2008