Girls Incarcerated Longer for Less Serious Offenses, Texas Study Shows [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 9/28/1512:00 PM

Girls serve longer sentences than boys in the Texas juvenile justice system, and for less serious offenses, according to a new study from the University of Texas at Austin.

Researchers studied 5,019 juveniles in three large, urban Texas counties over two years, finding that a female’s likelihood of remaining in confinement was 12.5 percent greater than that of a male.

[For more of this story, written by Joe Guszkowski, go to http://jjie.org/girls-incarcer...-study-shows/137855/]

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