Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice / / Meda Chesney-Lind and Randall G. Shelden

• Autore: Chesney-Lind Meda
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex : , : John Wiley & Sons, , [2014]; 2014
• Edizione: Fourth edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.36082/0973
• Soggetto topico: Female juvenile delinquents - United States; Juvenile justice, Administration of - United States
• Classificazione: 368.71
• Altri autori: SheldenRandall G. <1943->
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface to the Fourth Edition; 1: Introduction; Why a Book on Girls and Juvenile Justice?; References; 2: The Extent of Female Delinquency; Recent Trends: National Arrest Data; Self-Report Surveys; Delinquent Careers; Racial Differences; Summary; References; 3: The Nature of Female Delinquency; Girls and Shoplifting; Status Offenses; Runaways; Prostitution among Girls; International Prostitution; Girls and Violence; Relabeling Status Offenses; Aggression and Gender; Girls and Robbery; Summary; References; 4: Girls and Gangs ; Trends in Girl Gang MembershipCriminal Activities of Girls in Gangs; Types of Female Gangs; Moving Beyond the Stereotypes: The Social Context of Girl Gangs; Class and race; Drug use; Reasons for joining the gang; Relationship with males and male gangs; Family-related issues; School and work; Summary; References; 5: Theories of Crime and Female Delinquency; Early Theories of Female Delinquency; Sociological Theories of (Male) Delinquency: Do They Apply to Girls?; Social disorganization/social ecology theory; Strain Theory; Cultural Deviance Theories; Cohen's "culture of the gang" ; Miller's "lower-class culture"Differential Association; Control Theory; Labeling Theory; Critical/Marxist Perspectives; A Concluding Note; Towards a Theory of Female Delinquency; The Women's Movement and Female Crime; Feminist Criminology; Summary; References; 6: Girls' Lives and Girls' Delinquency; Growing Up Female; Welcome to "Girlworld": "Oh, Look at Me I'm So Pretty"; Girls, Parents, and Peers; Girls, Peers, and Pathways into Delinquency; Girls and the Sexual Double Standard; Girls' Victimization and Girls' Crime; Girls' victimization and female delinquency ; Contemporary Thinking about Adolescence, Gender, and CrimeSisters are doing it for themselves; Street liberation perspectives; Contemporary Perspectives of Girls' Delinquency and Violence; Patriarchy and gendered inequalities; Beyond victimization: violent girls as "one of the guys"; Girls' code of the streets: considering race, class, and gender; Context matters in girls' delinquency; Summary; References; 7: Girls and the Juvenile Justice System; A Historical Overview; The Doctrine of Parens Patriae: Roots of a Double Standard of Juvenile Justice; Ex Parte Crouse: Challenging Parens Patriae ; People v. Turner: Over-Ruling CrouseThe Child-Saving Movement and the Juvenile Court; "The Best Place to Conquer Girls"; The Juvenile Court and the Double Standard of Juvenile Justice; Deinstitutionalization and Judicial Paternalism: Challenges to the Double Standard of Juvenile Justice; Unpopular Reform?; Recent Trends: Finally a Focus on Girls, the Republican Backlash, and Congressional Gridlock; Summary; References; 8: The Contemporary Juvenile Justice System and Girls, Part I; Police and Juvenile Court Processing; An Overview of the System and Process ; The Rights of Juveniles: A Review of Key Cases
• Sommario/riassunto: The new edition of Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice combines cutting-edge research and expanded coverage of girls' delinquency, including coverage of girls in gangs and the sexual trafficking of girls, to provide students with an accessible, up-to-date, and globally oriented textbook. Including global perspectives and coverage of cutting-edge research, this is the only textbook to deal exclusively with girls and crimeOffers expanded coverage of girls in gangs and emerging literature on the sexual trafficking of girlsPulls together and analyzes all
• Titolo autorizzato: Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice
• ISBN: 1-78684-211-4; 1-118-45428-6; 1-118-51716-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910714023103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New York Academy of Sciences