Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice

Meda Chesney-Lind 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2013년 11월 13일 출간

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The new edition of Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice combines cutting-edge research and expanded coverage of girls' delinquency, including coverage of girls in gangs and the sexual trafficking of girls, to provide students with an accessible, up-to-date, and globally oriented textbook.Including global perspectives and coverage of cutting-edge research, this is the only textbook to deal exclusively with girls and crimeOffers expanded coverage of girls in gangs and emerging literature on the sexual trafficking of girlsPulls together and analyzes all existing literature on the subject of female delinquencyBrings to light new research on a wide range of issues, including the conditions of confinement for girls incarcerated in juvenile jails and prisons, Latina girls, and gender responsive programmingExplores the moral panic around quot;violent,quot; quot;bad,quot; and quot;meanquot; girls

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Preface to the Fourth Edition x1 Introduction: Why a Book on Girls and Juvenile Justice? 12 The Extent of Female Delinquency 9Recent Trends: National Arrest Data 9Self-Report Surveys 19Delinquent Careers 22Racial Differences 24Summary 29Notes 30References 303 The Nature of Female Delinquency 34Girls and Shoplift ing 34Status Offenses 37Runaways 42Prostitution among Girls 44International Prostitution 47Girls and Violence 48Relabeling Status Off enses 54Aggression and Gender 55Girls and Robbery 58Summary 60Note 61References 624 Girls and Gangs 72Trends in Girl Gang Membership 74Criminal Activities of Girls in Gangs 75Types of Female Gangs 78Moving Beyond the Stereotypes: The Social Context of Girl Gangs 80Class and race 80Drug use 83Reasons for joining the gang 85Relationship with males and male gangs 90Family-related issues 93School and work 99Summary 101Notes 102References 1025 Theories of Crime and Female Delinquency 107Early Theories of Female Delinquency 108Sociological Theories of (Male) Delinquency: Do They Apply to Girls? 115Social disorganization/social ecology theory 115Strain Th eory 118Cultural Deviance Theories 122Cohen&'s “culture of the gang” 122Miller&'s “lower-class culture” 123Differential Association 124Control Theory 124Labeling Theory 126Critical/Marxist Perspectives 128A Concluding Note 130Towards a Th eory of Female Delinquency 131The Women&'s Movement and Female Crime 135Feminist Criminology 138Summary 139Notes 141References 1416 Girls&' Lives and Girls&' Delinquency 146<

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저자(글) Meda Chesney-Lind

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Meda Chesney-Lind is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, her books include The Female Offender: Girls, Women andCrime (3rd edition, 2013), Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice (3rd edition, 2004), Female Gangs in America (1999), Invisible Punishment (2002), Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and Hype (2008), and Feminist Theories of Crime (2011).Randall G. Shelden is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He is the author or co-author of 15 books. Besides three previous editions of Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice (with Meda Chesney-Lind), his books include Youth Gangs in American Society (4th edition, 2013), Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in American Society (2nd edition, 2012), Our Punitive Society (2010), and Controlling the Dangerous Classes (2nd edition, 2008). He is co-editor of the online Justice Policy Journal.