Antecedents of violent behavior: Early childhood trauma in the lives of adolescent female offenders.

Title: Antecedents of violent behavior: Early childhood trauma in the lives of adolescent female offenders.
Identifier: AAI3074679
identifier: 3074679
Creator: Ryder, Judith Anne.
Contributor: Adviser: Mary Gibson
Date: 2003
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology | Women's Studies
Abstract: This qualitative study uses grounded theory to analyze interviews with 24 adolescent female offenders who were adjudicated and remanded to custody in New York State for assault or robbery. The secondary analysis is based on data from a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded study that assessed the links between drug involvement and youth violence through semi-structured interviews. Detailed findings from the lives of a subset of the 51 young women who participated in the original NIDA study are used to construct a model for understanding violence among this particular group of adolescent females. The trauma associated with disrupted parental attachment and an accumulation of early childhood loss and victimization, combined with minimal parental support and supervision, contributed to the use of maladaptive coping strategies and shifted the pathways of these young women into violent delinquency.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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