Indeed, an important point to understand about the nature of delinquency, and particularly female delinquency, is that youth can be taken into custody for both criminal acts and a wide variety of what are called "status offenses." ... Juvenile delinquents, then, are youths arrested for either criminal or non-criminal status offenses. ... It appears that girls charged with these non-criminal status offenses have been and continue to be significantly "over-represented in court population." ... To the point the sanctions for such misbehavior were extremely severe. ...

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