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164 male and female young offenders were given the Young Offender Level of Service Inventory. Scores from this 76-item risk assessment were used to produce a matched sample of 82 female and 82 male young offenders. Sex did not influence the 1-yr, criminal recidivism rate, a result consistent with other findings.
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Ilacqua et al. (1999) studied this question.
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