Physical Health in Adolescent Girls with Antisocial Behavior

Pajer, Kathleen; Lourie, Andrea; Leininger, Lisa

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“…A valuable future direction for research will be to better understand physical health outcomes for victimized girls in the justice system (Braverman & Murray, 2011). It is well established that exposure to interpersonal trauma is associated with disruptions in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which have negative repercussions for both physical and behavioral health generally (Pajer, Lourie, & Lieininger, 2011;Susman & Pajer, 2004), and specifically for delinquency, especially among girls (Fishbein, Miller, Winn, & Dakof, 2009). Girls also are particularly sensitive to the negative health effects associated with risky behaviors that may follow from victimization-for example, in comparison with boys, girls are not only more likely to abuse substances for the purposes of self-medication, but girls who engage in substance misuse descend more quickly into addiction and exhibit more ill-effects in regard to their physical well-being (National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, 2003).…”

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Polyvictimization and Girls’ Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System: Investigating Gender-Differentiated Patterns of Risk, Recidivism, and Resilience

Kerig

2018

J Interpers Violence

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A recent dramatic rise in girls' arrests has increased our need to examine whether our models of youth justice system involvement need to be differentiated by gender. Polyvictimization, in particular, has been implicated as a powerful predictor of youth problem behavior. However, recent research suggests that polyvictimization is associated with youth involvement in the justice system in ways that differ for girls at the levels of the independent variables (i.e., the sources of risk), the dependent variables (i.e., youth outcomes), and the mediators of these associations (i.e., the purported mechanisms that account for these relations). The present critique describes growth points in the current research with the goal of suggesting promising directions for future investigations. In particular, gaps are noted regarding our understanding of the specific forms of polyvictimization that affect traumatized girls' development, especially given the highly disproportionate prevalence of sexual abuse among justice-involved girls. In addition, increased attention is needed to gender differences in the timing of victimization and the onset of risky behavior, as well as the nature of trauma-linked youth offenses and recidivism, which research also suggests may differ for boys and girls. Furthermore, a new body of research on psychophysiological reactivity promises to shed light on gender differences in trauma response, resilience, and risk. Finally, the importance acknowledging the intersection of polyvictimization, gender, and race is noted. The article ends with a discussion of the ways in which understanding gender differences and similarities can inform gender-responsive approaches to prevention and intervention efforts.

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Section: The Biological Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Polyvictimization and Girls’ Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System: Investigating Gender-Differentiated Patterns of Risk, Recidivism, and Resilience

Kerig

2018

J Interpers Violence

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Physical Health in Adolescent Girls with Antisocial Behavior

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Polyvictimization and Girls’ Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System: Investigating Gender-Differentiated Patterns of Risk, Recidivism, and Resilience

Polyvictimization and Girls’ Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System: Investigating Gender-Differentiated Patterns of Risk, Recidivism, and Resilience

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