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Title Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence / edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology
SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones -- 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 -- The gendering of violence in intimate relationships : how violence makes sex less safe for girls / Melissa Dichter, Julie Cederbaum, and Anne 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 -- "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 -- Epilogue.
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Subject Female juvenile delinquents -- United States.
Female juvenile delinquents.
United States.
Teenage girls -- United States.
Teenage girls.
Violence -- United States.
Violence.
Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States.
Juvenile justice, Administration of.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Chesney-Lind, Meda.
Jones, Nikki, 1975-
Other Form: Print version: Fighting for girls. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010 9781438432939 (DLC) 2010007180 (OCoLC)574907975
ISBN 9781441674159 (electronic book)
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