Fighting for Girls: New Perspectives on Gender and Violence

TABLES AND FIGURES

vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii TABLES AND FIGURES Table 1.1 Monitoring Female High School Seniors 17 Table 1.2 Monitoring Female High School Seniors 19 Table 1.3 Pregnancies per 1,000 Teens 20 Table 1.4 Rapes per 1,000 Female Teens 21 Table 1.5 Sex and Violent Crimes against Women 21 Table 1.6 Female High School Seniors Reporting One Incident 22 Table 1.7 Trends among First-Year College Women 22 Table 1.8 Depressed or Overwhelmed First-Year College Women 23 Table 1.9 Female High School Senior Dissatisfaction 23 Table 1.10 Youth Index Crime Arrests 25 Table 1.11 Violent Crime Arrests by Age, Sex 26 Table 1.12 Violence Arrests, Girls 10–17 27 Table 2.1 Offender, Victim, and Incident Characteristics and Police Disposition by Offender Gender and Age 43 Table 2.2 Number and Percentage of Cases Resulting in Arrest by Offender Gender and Age and Seriousness of Offense 46 Table 2.3 Number and Percentage of Cases Resulting in Arrest by Victim and Offender Gender and Age 47 Table 2.4 Number and Percentage of Simple Assault Acquaintance Cases Resulting in Arrest by Victim and Offender Gender and Age 48 Table 2.5 Number and Percentage of Non-Intimate Partner Domestic Cases Resulting in Arrest by Victim and Offender Gender and Age 48 viii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Table 2.6 Number and Percentage of Simple Assault Domestic Non-Intimate Partner Cases Resulting in Arrest by Offender Gender, Age, and Victim-Offender Relationship 49 Figure 3.1 Detention Trends by Gender, 1991–2003 61 Figure 3.2 Offenses of Detained by Gender by Percentage, 2003 62 Figure 3.3 U.S. Female Residential Custody Rates by Race, 2003 63 Figure 3.4 Trends in Male Incarceration, 1991–2003 67 Figure 3.5 Trends in Female Incarceration, 1991–2003 67 Table 6.1 Traumatic Events Inventory 139 Table 7.1 Past Victimization Experiences 154 Table 7.2 Beaten Up Another Kid in the Past Year 155 Table 7.3 Recent Use of Aggression 155 Table 7.4 A Comparison of Self-Reported Levels of Experiencing Teacher Encouragement 156 Table 7.5 A Comparison of Self-Reported Levels of Feelings of School Discouragement 156 Table 7.6 A Comparison of Self-Reported Levels of Engagement in Classroom-Based Competition 157 Table 7.7 Classroom Competition and Cooperation among Students 157 Table 7.8 School Connectedness 158 Table 7.9 Correlations between School Climate and Use of Physical Violence 159 Table 10.1 Descriptive Statistics for Dependent and Independent Variables Used in the Analyses 226 Table 10.2 Correlation Matrix 227 Table 10.3 Negative Binomial Regression Results for Assault 229 ...