Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence / edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones.

Other author Chesney-Lind, Meda.
Other author Jones, Nikki, 1975-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Descriptionx, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSUNY series in women, crime, and criminology
SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology. ^A476992
Contents Introduction / Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones -- Have "girls gone wild"? / Mike Males -- Criminalizing assault : do age and gender matter? / Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel -- Jailing 'bad' girls : girls' violence and trends in female incarceration / Meda Chesney-Lind -- The gendering of violence in intimate relationships : how violence makes sex less safe for girls / Melissa Dichter, Julie Cederbaum, and Anne Teitelman -- Policing girlhood? Relational aggression and violence prevention / Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin -- "I don't know if you consider that as violence" : using attachment theory to understand girls' perspectives on violence / Judith A. Ryder -- Reducing aggressive behavior in adolescent girls by attending to school climate / Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson -- Negotiations of the living space : life in the group home for girls who use violence / Marion Brown -- "It's about being a survivor" : African American girls, gender, and the context of inner city violence / Nikki Jones -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010007180
ISBN9781438432939 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1438432933 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781438432946 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1438432941 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HV9104 .F54 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold