Discuss the gender differences in the juvenile justice system presented in the text
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Research has found that females were handled more punitively than males at almost every stage of the juvenile justice system:
• Female delinquents were substantially more likely to have been detained for status offenses before final juvenile court disposition or afterward.
• Not only did females represent a higher percentage of juvenile court cases, but they also represented an increasing percentage of cases that were petitioned for formal processing and ultimately adjudicated.
• Females were much more likely than boys to receive the harshest sanction available in a juvenile court—namely, commitment to a juvenile prison—for status offenses and even for technical violations of probation.
• Females were committed to a correctional facility at much younger ages than those of males.
• Females have achieved parity with males concerning the length of time served in confinement for delinquent conduct; females and males exhibit similar cumulative percentages for each sentence length.
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