This study is to understand the unique experiences of female juvenile delinquents, through analysis of the characteristics on delinquency and victimization of female juvenile delinquents, and to provide the improvements of the treatment of them. For this purpose, the reseacher analyzed the survey data on juvenile delinquency and victimization from 270 female and 290 male juvenile delinquents. The extent of girls' victimization such as neglect, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse in childhood is much greater than boys'. It is remakable for difference between female and male in physical and sexual abuse. And the times of girls' physical and sexual abuse were also early than boys'. Victimization rates of the female subgroup experienced the prostitution are most great in all juvenile subgroups. This result finding supports that girls' victimization are linked with subsequent delinquent behavior. Especially sexual abused girls were inclined to have more seriousness in a variety of criminal behaviors than the control girls. They were at increased risk for prostitution. But violent offenses seem to be no difference between subgroups. These findings suggest that part of abused girls be getting to escalate to criminal offending. And they had a tendency to have a low self-esteem and physical health problems, and to consider suicide. It is that abused girls develop antisocial or delinquent lifestyles that persist into adulthood as serious criminal careers. There is no single solution to female juvenile delinquency. But, first of all, it is necessary to provide gender-specific programs for abused girls such as specialized trauma treatment. Gender-specific programs must not only consider the risk factors leading girls to delinquency, but also focus on the protective and mitigating factors that foster strengths in adolescent girls. These protective factors include 'gender identity development', 'positive relationships with women adults', 'escalating self-esteem', 'educating about sexuality', etc.

여자 비행청소년의 범죄피해 경험과 처우
  Ⅰ. 서론
  Ⅱ. 이론적 배경: 범죄자이면서 범죄피해자인 여성
  Ⅲ. 연구방법
  Ⅳ. 여자청소년의 범죄피해 경험과 비행 특성
  Ⅴ. 여자 비행청소년의 필요와 처우
  Ⅵ. 맺음말
  참고문헌
  Abstract

• 최영신(한국형사정책연구원 연구위원) | Choi, Young-Shin