Juvenile justice reformers risk leaving girls behind if they fail to consider how traumatic experiences push girls into the system, says a new report.
Officials and advocates are more aware than ever of the way trauma affects girls’ behavior, but too few reforms are tailored to those experiences, said Francine T. Sherman, lead author of the report and a clinical law professor at Boston College Law School.
“Not only are we not fixing it, we are in an unfair and biased way penalizing girls for their background,” she said.
[For more of this story, written by Sarah Barr, go to http://jjie.org/report-juvenil...ent-of-girls/138491/]
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