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Educate or Incarcerate? Girls in the Florida and Duval County Juvenile Justice Systems

November 1, 2000

Stoneleigh Fellow Leslie Acoca presents a landmark study for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency on girls in the Florida and Duval County Juvenile Justice Systems. 

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