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Juvenile arrest rates in the United States have declined over the past decade, yet the percentage of girls in trouble with the law increased. Girls now enter the juvenile legal system for violent offenses in addition to minor violations for which previous generations of young women have always been...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Schaffner, Laurie
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Jugendliche Täterin
Teenagers with social disabilities.
Juvenile delinquency.
Juvenile corrections.
Female juvenile delinquents.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Services correctionnels pour mineurs > États-Unis.
Adolescents socialement defavorises > États-Unis.
Delinquance juvenile > États-Unis.
Jeunes delinquantes > États-Unis.
Juvenile corrections > United States.
Teenagers with social disabilities > United States.
Juvenile delinquency > United States.
Female juvenile delinquents > United States.
USA.
United States.
Electronic books.
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Résumé:Juvenile arrest rates in the United States have declined over the past decade, yet the percentage of girls in trouble with the law increased. Girls now enter the juvenile legal system for violent offenses in addition to minor violations for which previous generations of young women have always been detained. In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside female detention centers and explores the worlds of those who are incarcerated. Across the country, she finds t.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813538341

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