Dr. Shari Miller-Johnson

"Until relatively recently girls' aggression was trivialized, minimalized, ignored," says Dr. Shari Miller-Johnson, a senior research scientist with the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.
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Another compelling reason to understand girls and delinquency, says Dr. Miller-Johnson, is that girls who are highly aggressive are also more likely to become pregnant as teens.

And according to research authored Dr. Shari Miller-Johnson , of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University , girls who are highly aggressive are also more likely to become pregnant as teens."And we know that teen mothers are at greater risk of increased abuse and neglect," which leads to an "intergenerational transmission of violence," says Miller-Johnson.

"The hard and fast reality is that a decade ago girls made up 20 percent of arrests now they make up 29 percent, but we have a system that is not used to dealing with girls, so we need to look at what we are doing for girls and be more sensitive," says Dr. Sheri Miller-Johnson, a researcher at Duke University.

During the last decade, arrests of girls have increased dramatically, said Shari Miller-Johnson, a senior research scientist with Duke University's Center for Child and Family Policy.

"We don't know whether there's actually more violence, or whether it's a change in policy and practice," she said during the all-day conference at the Friday Center.
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"There is a need for programs and services to be responsive to girls' overall functioning and ways in which their needs are both similar and different from boys," said Miller-Johnson.