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Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chesney-Lind, Meda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Fourth Edition
  • 1: Introduction
  • Why a Book on Girls and Juvenile Justice?
  • References
  • 2: The Extent of Female Delinquency
  • Recent Trends: National Arrest Data
  • Self-Report Surveys
  • Delinquent Careers
  • Racial Differences
  • Summary
  • References
  • 3: The Nature of Female Delinquency
  • Girls and Shoplifting
  • Status Offenses
  • Runaways
  • Prostitution among Girls
  • International Prostitution
  • Girls and Violence
  • Relabeling Status Offenses
  • Aggression and Gender
  • Girls and Robbery
  • Summary
  • Cultural Deviance Theories
  • Cohen's "culture of the gang"
  • Miller's "lower-class culture"
  • Differential Association
  • Control Theory
  • Labeling Theory
  • Critical/Marxist Perspectives
  • A Concluding Note
  • Towards a Theory of Female Delinquency
  • The Women's Movement and Female Crime
  • Feminist Criminology
  • Summary
  • References
  • 6: Girls' Lives and Girls' Delinquency
  • Growing Up Female
  • Welcome to "Girlworld": "Oh, Look at Me I'm So Pretty"
  • Girls, Parents, and Peers
  • Girls, Peers, and Pathways into Delinquency
  • Girls and the Sexual Double Standard
  • Girls' Victimization and Girls' Crime
  • Girls' victimization and female delinquency
  • Contemporary Thinking about Adolescence, Gender, and Crime
  • Sisters are doing it for themselves
  • Street liberation perspectives
  • Contemporary Perspectives of Girls' Delinquency and Violence
  • Patriarchy and gendered inequalities
  • Beyond victimization: violent girls as "one of the guys"
  • Girls' code of the streets: considering race, class, and gender
  • Context matters in girls' delinquency
  • Summary
  • References
  • 7: Girls and the Juvenile Justice System
  • A Historical Overview
  • The Doctrine of Parens Patriae: Roots of a Double Standard of Juvenile Justice
  • Ex Parte Crouse: Challenging Parens Patriae
  • People v. Turner: Over-Ruling Crouse
  • The Child-Saving Movement and the Juvenile Court
  • "The Best Place to Conquer Girls"
  • The Juvenile Court and the Double Standard of Juvenile Justice
  • Deinstitutionalization and Judicial Paternalism: Challenges to the Double Standard of Juvenile Justice
  • Unpopular Reform?
  • Recent Trends: Finally a Focus on Girls, the Republican Backlash, and Congressional Gridlock
  • Summary
  • References