Girls are Violent

Abstract

Violence is common in all parts of the world due and, different activities of violence and terrorism exist in each part of the world. This violence cannot be ignored because, each day there is a violent activity committed by different gangs around the world. Girls have been noticed in increasing violence in the world and, they are participating in equal violence as boys. Several studies have shown results that, girls are also involved in numerous crimes as boys because of several reasons. This is not the factor to ignore because, girls are not the symbol of violence and, in history they always represented as the symbol of love and peace. They have always helped in raising voices against tortured and wrong attitude of world towards women and, it is not expected that, they put themselves in certain crimes. The female arrest rate in 1997 was 103% as compared with the 1981 rate and, boys' rate was just 21% above than the previous rate. This result has shown the increase in the participation of girls in violence through the last decade. Girls do not want to participate in violence and crimes but, it is society that have changed their attitudes of living and, it is considered that, girls also start taking participation in several criminal activities as boys such as rape of other girls, theft, robbery, murder and, other crimes. The research also highlighted that, why women develop such attitudes to act violent and, commit in crimes and, reflect the criminal aspects of women psychology due to consumption of drugs and alcohol. Young women take the advantage of gender in getting less harm and, attract the attention of society due to wrong attitudes of individuals against women.

Participation of Girls in Violence

Introduction

A number of factors have been correlated with increased rates of girls' delinquency, including the influence of delinquent siblings and neighborhood characteristics, such as urbanicity and the presence of gangs. Tracy et al., (2009) contend that race/ethnicity may be the most salient predictor of delinquency for girls. Goodkind et al. (2009) examined a longitudinal nationally representative dataset of 10th to 12th grade students to assess patterns of delinquency by gender, finding violent behavior exhibited by girls was most prevalent among African-Americans. African-American girls also reported rates of fighting incidences similar to those of Caucasian boys. African-American and Hispanic girls' rates of injuring another individual badly (as measured by the victim needing bandages or a doctor's care) have significantly increased across time. Additionally, girls from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds are disproportionately represented in the juvenile justice system (Goodkind et al., 2009). In 2004, African-American girls represented 31% of all juvenile arrest cases for girls in the U.S. while only representing 17% of all juveniles.

Across various professional fields (e.g. social work, sociology, criminology), there is overwhelming agreement that there is a link between childhood victimization and later juvenile offending for girls (Cauffman, 2008; Chamberlain & Moore, 2002; Simkins & Kate, 2002), with over 90% of girls in the juvenile ...