Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice
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Beschreibung
The new edition of Girls, Delinquency, and JuvenileJustice combines cutting-edge research and expanded coverage ofgirls' delinquency, including coverage of girls in gangs andthe sexual trafficking of girls, to provide students with anaccessible, up-to-date, and globally oriented textbook.
* Including global perspectives and coverage of cutting-edgeresearch, this is the only textbook to deal exclusively with girlsand crime
* Offers expanded coverage of girls in gangs and emergingliterature on the sexual trafficking of girls
* Pulls together and analyzes all existing literature on thesubject of female delinquency
* Brings to light new research on a wide range of issues,including the conditions of confinement for girls incarcerated injuvenile jails and prisons, Latina girls, and gender responsiveprogramming
* Explores the moral panic around "violent," "bad," and "mean"girls
Autor*in
Meda Chesney-Lind
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Adolescence Criminology Entwicklungspsychologie / Jugendalter Kriminologie Law Penology & Police Science Pönologie Pönologie u. Polizeiwissenschaft Psychologie Psychology Rechtswissenschaft
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"Twenty years after publication of the first edition, thisremains the definitive source for understandingboth the experiences that bring girls into the orbit of thejuvenile justice system and the system itself. This immenselyvaluable book should be required reading for anyone studying orworking in juvenile justice."
--Marjorie S. Zatz, Arizona State University
"Instructors of criminal justice or criminology lookingfor a textbook on the girl delinquent would be hard pressed to finda more comprehensive and brilliantly delivered one thanChesney-Lind and Shelden's Girls, Delinquency, andJuvenile Justice. The fact that it is now in its4th edition speaks volumes about how well it has beenreceived by members of the academy. Both authors are knownnationally and internationally as highly regarded experts on girldelinquents and this comes through in the pages of thistextbook."
--Barbara Sims, Mars Hill University
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