Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence /

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Have girls really gone wild? Despite the media fascination with "bad girls," facts beyond the hype have remained unclear. Fighting for Girls focuses on these facts, and using the best data available about actual trends in girls' uses of violence, the scholars here find that by virtual...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chesney-Lind, Meda, Jones, Nikki, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Colección:SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.
Temas:
Female juvenile delinquents > United States.
Teenage girls > United States.
Violence > United States.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Jeunes délinquantes > États-Unis.
Adolescentes > États-Unis.
Violence > États-Unis.
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Female juvenile delinquents.
Juvenile justice, Administration of.
Teenage girls.
Violence.
Weibliche Jugend
Gewalttätigkeit
Weibliche Jugend.
Gewalttätigkeit.
Ungdomsbrottslingar > genusaspekter.
Ungdomsbrottslighet > genusaspekter.
Kvinnliga brottslingar.
Tonårsflickor.
Våld > genusaspekter.
United States.
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones
  • Have "girls gone wild"? / Mike Males
  • Criminalizing assault : do age and gender matter? / Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel
  • Jailing 'bad' girls : girls' violence and trends in female incarceration / Meda Chesney-Lind
  • The gendering of violence in intimate relationships : how violence makes sex less safe for girls / Melissa Dichter, Julie Cederbaum, and Anne Teitelman
  • Policing girlhood? Relational aggression and violence prevention / Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin
  • "I don't know if you consider that as violence" : using attachment theory to understand girls' perspectives on violence / Judith A. Ryder
  • Reducing aggressive behavior in adolescent girls by attending to school climate / Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson
  • Negotiations of the living space : life in the group home for girls who use violence / Marion Brown
  • "It's about being a survivor" : African American girls, gender, and the context of inner city violence / Nikki Jones
  • The importance of context in the production of older girls' violence : implications for the focus of interventions / Merry Morash, Suyeon Park, and Jung Mi Kim
  • Epilogue.

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