Nacro has published a youth crime briefing on girls in the youth justice system. The charity argues there has been increasing media and public concern about an "escalation" in girls' offending, but claims that the statistics prove otherwise. Researchers examined offending figures and found that while the number of violent offences committed by girls rose from 3,700 to 5,700 between 1993 and 2006, many cases that came to the attention of the justice system were at the lower end of the scale in terms of seriousness and involved no...