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

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.36082/0973
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Chesney-LindMeda JonesNikki <1975->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fighting for girls
• ISBN: 1-4384-3295-X; 1-4416-7415-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465444903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.