Girls in trouble with the law /
Juvenile arrest rates in the United States have declined over the past decade, yet the percentage of girls in trouble with the law increased. Girls now enter the juvenile legal system for violent offenses in addition to minor violations for which previous generations of young women have always been...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006. |
| Series: | Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text |
| Summary: | Juvenile arrest rates in the United States have declined over the past decade, yet the percentage of girls in trouble with the law increased. Girls now enter the juvenile legal system for violent offenses in addition to minor violations for which previous generations of young women have always been detained. In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside female detention centers and explores the worlds of those who are incarcerated. Across the country, she finds t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813541433 0813541433 9780813539461 0813539463 0813538335 9780813538334 0813538343 9780813538341 1280947179 9781280947179 9786610947171 6610947171 |
| Author Notes: | M. Catherine Maternowska is an assistant professor in the departments of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences as well as anthropology, history, and social medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. |