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Fighting for Girls : New Perspectives on Gender and Violence.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series in Women, Crime, and Criminology SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438432953
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fighting for GirlsDDC classification:
  • 364.360820973
LOC classification:
  • HV9104 -- .F54 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- FIGHTING FOR GIRLS -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: REAL TRENDS IN FEMALE VIOLENCE: GETTING TOUGH ON GIRLS -- ONE: HAVE "GIRLS GONE WILD"? -- TWO: CRIMINALIZING ASSAULT Do Age and Gender Matter? -- THREE: JAILING "BAD" GIRLS Girls' Violence and Trends in Female Incarceration -- PART II: GIRLS' VIOLENCE: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS AND CONCERNS -- FOUR: THE GENDERING OF VIOLENCE IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: How Violence Makes Sex Less Safe for Girls -- FIVE: POLICING GIRLHOOD?: Relational Aggression and Violence Prevention -- SIX: "I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CONSIDER THAT AS VIOLENCE . . .": Using Attachment Theory to Understand Girls' Perspectives on Violence -- SEVEN: REDUCING AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIORIN ADOLESCENT GIRLS BY ATTENDING TO SCHOOL CLIMATE -- EIGHT: NEGOTIATIONS OF THE LIVING SPACE: Life in the Group Home for Girls Who Use Violence -- PART III: GIRLS' VIOLENCE: EXPLANATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- NINE: "IT'S ABOUT BEING A SURVIVOR . . .": African American Girls, Gender, and the Context of Inner-City Violence -- TEN: THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT IN THE PRODUCTION OF OLDER GIRLS' VIOLENCE: Implications for the Focus of Interventions -- EPILOGUE: MORAL PANICS,VIOLENCE,AND THE POLICING OF GIRLS Reasserting Patriarchal Control in the New Millennium -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Summary: Cutting edge research into trends and social contexts of girls' violence.
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Intro -- FIGHTING FOR GIRLS -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: REAL TRENDS IN FEMALE VIOLENCE: GETTING TOUGH ON GIRLS -- ONE: HAVE "GIRLS GONE WILD"? -- TWO: CRIMINALIZING ASSAULT Do Age and Gender Matter? -- THREE: JAILING "BAD" GIRLS Girls' Violence and Trends in Female Incarceration -- PART II: GIRLS' VIOLENCE: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS AND CONCERNS -- FOUR: THE GENDERING OF VIOLENCE IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: How Violence Makes Sex Less Safe for Girls -- FIVE: POLICING GIRLHOOD?: Relational Aggression and Violence Prevention -- SIX: "I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CONSIDER THAT AS VIOLENCE . . .": Using Attachment Theory to Understand Girls' Perspectives on Violence -- SEVEN: REDUCING AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIORIN ADOLESCENT GIRLS BY ATTENDING TO SCHOOL CLIMATE -- EIGHT: NEGOTIATIONS OF THE LIVING SPACE: Life in the Group Home for Girls Who Use Violence -- PART III: GIRLS' VIOLENCE: EXPLANATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- NINE: "IT'S ABOUT BEING A SURVIVOR . . .": African American Girls, Gender, and the Context of Inner-City Violence -- TEN: THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT IN THE PRODUCTION OF OLDER GIRLS' VIOLENCE: Implications for the Focus of Interventions -- EPILOGUE: MORAL PANICS,VIOLENCE,AND THE POLICING OF GIRLS Reasserting Patriarchal Control in the New Millennium -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Cutting edge research into trends and social contexts of girls' violence.

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