Chesney-Lind / Jones Fighting for Girls

New Perspectives on Gender and Violence
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3295-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Women, Crime, and Criminology

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chesney-Lind, Meda

Jones, Nikki

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones

Part I. Real Trends in Female Violence: Getting Tough on Girls

1. Have “Girls Gone Wild”?
Mike Males

2. Criminalizing Assault: Do Age and Gender Matter?
Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel

3. Jailing “Bad” Girls: Girls’ Violence and Trends in Female Incarceration
Meda Chesney-Lind

Part II. Girls’ Violence: Institutional Contexts and Concerns

4. The Gendering of Violence in Intimate Relationships: How Violence Makes Sex Less Safe for Girls
Melissa E. Dichter, Julie A. Cederbaum, and Anne M. Teitelman

5. Policing Girlhood? Relational Aggression and Violence Prevention
Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin

6. “I don’t know if you consider that as violence.”: Using Attachment Theory to Understand Girls' Perspectives on Violence
Judith A. Ryder

7. Reducing Aggressive Behavior in Adolescent Girls by Attending to School Climate
Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson

8. Negotiations of the Living Space: Life in the Group Home for Girls Who Use Violence
Marion Brown

Part III. Girls’ Violence: Explanations and Implications

9. “It’s about being a survivor.”: African American Girls, Gender, and the Context of Inner-City Violence
Nikki Jones

10. 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: Moral Panics, Violence, and the Policing of Girls: Reasserting Patriarchal Control in the New Millennium
Walter S. DeKeseredy

About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Meda Chesney-Lind is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her many books include Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence, and Hype (coauthored with Katherine Irwin); The Female Offender: Girls, Women, and Crime, Second Edition (coauthored with Lisa Pasko); and Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice, Third Edition (coauthored with Randall G. Shelden). Nikki Jones is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner City Violence.