“…Whereas numerous cross-sectional studies (e.g., Hoeve et al, 2009;Pardini et al, 2015) have documented different risk factors related to female delinquency, only a small number of studies have investigated young offenders' own perspective on their interpersonal relationships. However, most of these studies include only a small number or no females at all (e.g., Sander, Sharkey, Olivarri, Tanigawa, & Mauseth, 2010;Wester, MacDonald, & Lewis, 2008). Those who do include young female offenders have mostly focused on victimization and its potential connection to the young female's delinquent behaviour and/or sampled incarcerated adolescents (e.g., Gaarder & Belknap, 2004;Herrman & Silverstein, 2012).…”