ABSTRACT
Tremblay (1991) charged scientists and clinicians with a novel task. Noting the potential for conduct-disordered girls to socialize a new generation of deviance, he urged researchers to explore the development and maintenance of CD exclusively in females. The authors of the preceding two chapters heeded this call. In an attempt to provide insight into and thus prevent the perpetuation of social maladjustment, they created a thoughtful framework of aggression and CD that addresses the experiences, pressures, and concerns specific to development in girls. In different, but complementary, ways their models use both theoretical and contextual cues to explain the emergence and maintenance of externalizing behaviors in young females.
