Fighting for girls
Subtitle: new perspectives on gender and violence
By: edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones
Series: SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781438432939; 9781438432946
Subjects: Violence; Administration of Juvenile justice; Teenage girls; Female juvenile delinquents; Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones; title: Have "girls gone wild"? / Mike Males; title: Criminalizing assault : do age and gender matter? / Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel; title: Jailing 'bad' girls : girls' violence and trends in female incarceration / Meda Chesney-Lind; title: The gendering of violence in intimate relationships : how violence makes sex less safe for girls / Melissa Dichter, Julie Cederbaum, and Anne Teitelman; title: Policing girlhood? Relational aggression and violence prevention / Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin; title: "I don't know if you consider that as violence" : using attachment theory to understand girls' perspectives on violence / Judith A. Ryder; title: Reducing aggressive behavior in adolescent girls by attending to school climate / Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson; title: Negotiations of the living space : life in the group home for girls who use violence / Marion Brown; title: "It's about being a survivor" : African American girls, gender, and the context of inner city violence / Nikki Jones; title: 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; title: Epilogue.