Nacro has published a youth crime briefing on girls in the youth justicesystem. The charity argues there has been increasing media and publicconcern about an "escalation" in girls' offending, but claims that thestatistics prove otherwise.
Researchers examined offending figures and found that while the numberof violent offences committed by girls rose from 3,700 to 5,700 between1993 and 2006, many cases that came to the attention of the justicesystem were at the lower end of the scale in terms of seriousness andinvolved no injury to the victim.
Additionally, 79 per cent of violent offences committed by girls in 2006resulted in a reprimand or final warning, rather than a conviction.Nacro says this signifies that the behaviour involved was below thethreshold where the public interest requires a prosecution.
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