Results 1 to 2 of 2
- The female offender : girls, women, and crime. by Chesney-Lind, Meda.; Pasko, Lisa.(NL-LeOCL)285495224;
Met lit.opg. en index.Introduction -- Girls' Troubles and "Female Delinquency" -- Girls, Gangs, and Violence -- The Juvenile Justice Systems and Girls -- Trends in Women's Crime -- Sentencing Women to Prison: Equality Without Justice -- Female Offenders, Community Supervision, and Evidence-Based Practices -- ConclusionScholarship in criminology over the last few decades has often left little room for research and theory on how female offenders are perceived and handled in the criminal justice system. In truth, one out of every four juveniles arrested is female, and the population of women in prison has tripled in the past decade. Co-authored by one of the pioneers in the development of the feminist theoretical perspective in criminology, this work redresses these issues. The authors explore gender and cultural factors in women's lives that often precede criminal behavior and address the question of whether female offenders are more violent today than in the past. The authors provide a revealing look at how public discomfort with the idea of women as criminals significantly impacts the treatment received by this offender population. The text covers additional topics such the interaction of sexism, racism, and social class inequalities that results in an increase of female offenders, as well as the imprisonment binge that has resulted in an increasing number of girls and women being incarcerated.- Subjects: Female offenders.; Violence in women.; Criminal behavior;
- © 2013., SAGE,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
-
unAPI
- Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence / by Chesney-Lind, Meda.; Jones, Nikki,1975-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.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.- Subjects: Female juvenile delinquents; Teenage girls; Violence; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Discrimination in criminal justice administration;
- © c2010., State University of New York Press,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
-
unAPI
Results 1 to 2 of 2