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The Service And Re-Entry Needs Of Juvenile Offenders: American Indian Girls Impacted By Sexual Trauma, Rae Anne Marie Frey
The Service And Re-Entry Needs Of Juvenile Offenders: American Indian Girls Impacted By Sexual Trauma, Rae Anne Marie Frey
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American Indian (AI) youth experience incarceration (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2011; Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, 1997-2010) and sexual abuse (Bachman, Zaykowski, Lanier, Poteyeva, & Kallmyer, 2010; Ellison, 2005; Hamby, 2008; Robin, 1997) at disparate rates in the United States. The present qualitative project utilized Extended Case Method to explore the service and re-entry needs of AI girls who are juvenile offenders and have been impacted by sexual abuse. This project includes secondary data detailing 58 cases of detained AI girls at a state-run female juvenile detention facility in the Midwest. Results indicated 26 of …