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Interventions with young female offenders and teenage girls at risk: alternative educational services in a Singapore girls' home
Author(s) -
ZHANG KAILI CHEN,
CHOO ANDREW,
LIM LIPING
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9604.2009.01414.x
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , psychological intervention , psychology , developmental psychology , juvenile , psychiatry , genetics , biology
This article presents factors that place girls at risk of delinquency and offending as well as the patterns in juvenile delinquency trends for females in Singapore. The authors also describe Singapore's overall structure of services for young offenders and the current status of alternative education programmes for young women engaged in delinquent behaviours and at‐risk teenage girls. The unique features of a Singapore girls' home are then highlighted. Finally, implications for juvenile educational programming are considered.