Abstract
This chapter reviews what is known about patterns of female offending during the early part of the life course and theories of young women's lawbreaking. This is followed by a discussion of the gendered punishments conferred upon marginalized girls and young women, including the impact of welfare system neglect and indifference. The well-known age-crime curve demonstrates that while relatively few children engage in lawbreaking or delinquency prior to adolescence, and this is followed by a decrease in involvement in crime during late adolescence and early adulthood. Qualitative research with criminalized girls has found that destabilizing events occur in the lives of criminalized young women during their early teenage years. The chapter concludes that rehabilitation for young women must address social and interpersonal roots of their lawbreaking while recognizing the multiple punishments and stigmas they face across a range of domains of social life over and above the formal sanctions meted out by the penal system.
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