• Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: new perspectives on gender and violence
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: JonesNikki, 1975-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Chesney-LindMeda,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Albany
    Published: State University of New York Press;
    Year of Publication: c2010
    Description: 1 online resource (x, 266 p.)ill. :
    Series: SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology
    Subject: Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States -
    Subject: Juvenile justice, Administration of - United States -
    Subject: Violence - United States -
    Subject: Teenage girls - United States -
    Subject: Female juvenile delinquents - United States -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781438432953/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN: 9781438432953electronic bk.
    ISBN: 143843295Xelectronic bk.
    ISBN: 9781438432946pbk.
    ISBN: 1438432941pbk.
    ISBN: 9781438432939hbk.
    ISBN: 1438432933hbk.
    Content Note: pt. I. Real trends in female violence: getting tough on girls. Have "girls gone wild"? / MikeMales -- 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
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