Experts Say Juvenile Justice System is Now Tougher on Females: “More and more girls under 18 are being arrested for violent crimes. They’re still far less likely than boys to get picked up for things like robbery and assault. But the gap is narrowing. That’s led to the perception that girls have become much more violent in recent decades. But as NPR’s Jonathan Hamilton reports in Part Three of the series Girls and the Juvenile Justice System, experts on juvenile crime have another theory.” NPR