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Girls, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice
by CHESNEY-LIND/SHELDENEdition:
1st
ISBN13:
9780534169800
ISBN10:
0534169805
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
10/11/1991
Publisher(s):
Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
This text is intended as a supplement for courses in juvenile delinquency, or for special topics courses on women in criminal justice. This is the first book devoted solely to the topic of female delinquency and the treatment of young girls by the juvenile justice system. The book sheds new light on the special problems of delinquent girls by taking into account what it is like to grow up female in a patriarchal society.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Why a Book on Girls and Juvenile Justice? | p. 1 |
| The Extent of Female Delinquency | p. 7 |
| The Nature of Female Delinquency | p. 28 |
| Girls and Gangs | p. 45 |
| Theories of Female Delinquency and Crime | p. 73 |
| Girls' Lives and Girls' Delinquency | p. 101 |
| Girls and the Juvenile Justice System: A Historical Overview | p. 124 |
| The Contemporary Juvenile Justice System and Girls, Part I: Police and Juvenile Court Processing | p. 146 |
| The Contemporary Juvenile Justice System and Girls, Part II: Girls in Institutions | p. 164 |
| In Their Own Words: Interviews with Girls in the Juvenile Justice System | p. 192 |
| Programs for Girls in Trouble | p. 210 |
| Conclusions | p. 239 |
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