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6 Feminist Criminology 3 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/femcrim6 and id is 1 raw text is: Feminist Criminology 6(1) 3-31 Male and Female Juvenile R d@TheAuthor(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: http://www. Homicide Offenders: Afl sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1557085110387788 Empirical Analysis of U.S. http://fc.sagepub.com Arrests by Offender Age OGE Kathleen M. Heide', Eldra P. Solomon, Brian G. Sellers', and Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan' Abstract Most studies on juvenile homicide offenders (JHOs) have used small samples and concentrated on male teenage offenders. No large scale research has analyzed victim, offender, and offense correlates among younger and older JHOs. Supplementary Homicide Research (SHR) data (1976-2007) are used to explore gender and age differences among JHOs. Male and female JHOs were divided into younger (below age 13) and older (age 13-17 years) groups. Gender differences previously found with respect to victim age, victim gender, victim offender relationship, weapon, and circumstance remained when the effect of offender age was controlled. The implications of these findings are discussed. Keywords juvenile homicide offenders, female juvenile homicide offenders, female juvenile vio- lence, female delinquency, gender, murder The involvement of girls in violent crime has been a matter of growing public concern in the United States (Males & Chesney-Lind, 2010). Feature articles in U.S. newspa- pers have focused on girl fights and lethal violence by girls (Heide & Solomon, 2009). Cases that have generated intense media coverage included, for example, Bullied to death by the mean girls (Witheridge, 2010), 15-year-old Bronx girl is charged with 'University of South Florida, Tampa 2Center for Mental Health Education, Assessment and Therapy, Tampa, FL Corresponding Author: Kathleen M. Heide, PhD, Full Professor, Dept. of Criminology, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Social Sciences Room 107, Tampa, Florida 33620-8100 Email: kheide@usf.edu

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