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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465444903321

Titolo

Fighting for girls [[electronic resource] ] : new perspectives on gender and violence / / edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4384-3295-X

1-4416-7415-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology

Altri autori (Persone)

Chesney-LindMeda

JonesNikki <1975->

Disciplina

364.36082/0973

Soggetti

Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States

Female juvenile delinquents - United States

Juvenile justice, Administration of - United States

Teenage girls - United States

Violence - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Real trends in female violence: getting tough on girls. 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 -- pt. II. Girls' violence: institutional contexts and concerns. The gendering of violence in intimate relationships: how violence makes sex less safe for girls / Melissa E. Dichter, Julie A. Cederbaum, and Anne M. 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 -- pt. III. Girls' violence: explanations and implications. "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 -- Moral panics, violence, and the policing of girls: reasserting patriarchal control in the new millennium / Walter S. DeKeseredy.