2005
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Criminologie ; vol. 38 no. 1 (2005)
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Nadine Lanctôt, « Que deviennent les adolescentes judiciarisées près de dix ans après leur sortie du Centre jeunesse ? », Criminologie, ID : 10.7202/011488ar
This study has three objectives: 1) to establish the prevalence of deviant behaviours reported in adolescence and early adulthood by young women who were adjudicated during their adolescence, 2) to identify the developmental pathways of deviant activities of these young women, 3) to evaluate the proportion of adjudicated adolescent females who are facing personal and social difficulties at the beginning of their adulthood. The sample includes 97 young women who have received a court order from the Youth Court of Montreal in 1992-1993. The data comes from self-reported questionnaires filled out by participants on three separate occasions: at 15 years old, at 17 years old and at 23 years old. The results show that, even though some young women were strongly involved in deviant activities during their mid-teens, no trajectory denotes a persistent involvement in acts of violence or crimes against property. However, other difficulties compromise the well-being of these young women. Once reaching adulthood, adjudicated adolescent females are particularly at risk of cumulating adversive situations in which single-parenthood, poverty, low levels of education, domestic violence, and distress juxtapose.