1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716531403321

Titolo

Partnering with relatives to promote reunification

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau, Child Welfare Information Gateway, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (10 pages) : color illustration

Collana

Factsheets for families

Soggetti

Family reunification - United States

Foster children - Family relationships - United States

Kinship care - United States

Family reunification

Foster children - Family relationships

Kinship care

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 2020."



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974121903321

Autore

Sprott Jane B

Titolo

Justice for girls? : stability and change in the youth justice systems of the United States and Canada / / Jane B. Sprott and Anthony N. Doob ; with a foreword by Franklin E. Zimring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009

ISBN

9786613159779

9781283159777

1283159775

9780226770062

0226770060

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Adolescent development and legal policy

Classificazione

LAW026000SOC000000SOC004000

Altri autori (Persone)

DoobAnthony N

ZimringFranklin E

Disciplina

364.36082/0973

Soggetti

Female juvenile delinquents - United States

Juvenile justice, Administration of - United States

Female juvenile delinquents - Canada

Juvenile justice, Administration of - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Criminal girls and girls in youth justice -- Are sugar and spice really evolving into snips and snails and puppy-dog tails? -- Paternalism and the social control of adolescent girls: juvenile justice reform in the United states -- Paternalism and the social control of adolescent girls: juvenile justice reform in Canada -- The impact of law reform: deinstitutionalization in law and practice in the United States -- The impact of law reform: deinstitutionalization in law and practice in Canada -- Continuity and change in justice for girls -- Appendixes.

Sommario/riassunto

For over a century, as women have fought for and won greater freedoms, concern over an epidemic of female criminality, especially among young women, has followed. Fear of this crime wave-despite a persistent lack of evidence of its existence-has played a decisive role in the development of the youth justice systems in the United States and



Canada. Justice for Girls? is a comprehensive comparative study of the way these countries have responded to the hysteria over "girl crime" and how it has affected the treatment of both girls and boys. Tackling a century of