Nearly 90 percent of the females were charged with assault and battery. The findings showed that girls were more likely to have their charges dismissed than boys, but boys were more likely to be placed on formal supervision, sent to a training school, or receive some other type of supervision order. While half of the male offenders received no program or alternative, only 29.5 percent of the violent female offenders received some treatment alternative. Finally, girls were sent to counseling twice as often as boys. Two separate issues emerge from this study: the availability of programs structured to handle violent, adolescent female offenders and the appropriateness of referral placements and completion of these programs. 3 tables and 37 references