Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice

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 crime
* Offers expanded coverage of girls in gangs and emerging literature on the sexual trafficking of girls
* Pulls together and analyzes all existing literature on the subject of female delinquency
* Brings 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 programming
* Explores the moral panic around "violent," "bad," and "mean" girls

List of contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition x
 
1 Introduction: Why a Book on Girls and Juvenile Justice? 1
 
2 The Extent of Female Delinquency 9
 
Recent Trends: National Arrest Data 9
 
Self-Report Surveys 19
 
Delinquent Careers 22
 
Racial Differences 24
 
Summary 29
 
Notes 30
 
References 30
 
3 The Nature of Female Delinquency 34
 
Girls and Shoplift ing 34
 
Status Offenses 37
 
Runaways 42
 
Prostitution among Girls 44
 
International Prostitution 47
 
Girls and Violence 48
 
Relabeling Status Off enses 54
 
Aggression and Gender 55
 
Girls and Robbery 58
 
Summary 60
 
Note 61
 
References 62
 
4 Girls and Gangs 72
 
Trends in Girl Gang Membership 74
 
Criminal Activities of Girls in Gangs 75
 
Types of Female Gangs 78
 
Moving Beyond the Stereotypes: The Social Context of Girl Gangs 80
 
Class and race 80
 
Drug use 83
 
Reasons for joining the gang 85
 
Relationship with males and male gangs 90
 
Family-related issues 93
 
School and work 99
 
Summary 101
 
Notes 102
 
References 102
 
5 Theories of Crime and Female Delinquency 107
 
Early Theories of Female Delinquency 108
 
Sociological Theories of (Male) Delinquency: Do They Apply to Girls? 115
 
Social disorganization/social ecology theory 115
 
Strain Th eory 118
 
Cultural Deviance Theories 122
 
Cohen's "culture of the gang" 122
 
Miller's "lower-class culture" 123
 
Differential Association 124
 
Control Theory 124
 
Labeling Theory 126
 
Critical/Marxist Perspectives 128
 
A Concluding Note 130
 
Towards a Th eory of Female Delinquency 131
 
The Women's Movement and Female Crime 135
 
Feminist Criminology 138
 
Summary 139
 
Notes 141
 
References 141
 
6 Girls' Lives and Girls' Delinquency 146
 
Growing Up Female 146
 
Welcome to "Girlworld": "Oh, Look at Me I'm So Pretty" 149
 
Girls, Parents, and Peers 153
 
Girls, Peers, and Pathways into Delinquency 157
 
Girls and the Sexual Double Standard 158
 
Girls' Victimization and Girls' Crime 160
 
Girls' victimization and female delinquency 162
 
Contemporary Th inking about Adolescence, Gender, and Crime 165
 
Sisters are doing it for themselves 167
 
Street liberation perspectives 167
 
Contemporary Perspectives of Girls' Delinquency and Violence 168
 
Patriarchy and gendered inequalities 169
 
Beyond victimization: violent girls as "one of the guys" 170
 
Girls' code of the streets: considering race, class, and gender 172
 
Context matters in girls' delinquency 173
 
Summary 176
 
Note 177
 
References 178
 
7 Girls and the Juvenile Justice System: A Historical Overview 183
 
The Doctrine of Parens Patriae: Roots of a Double Standard of Juvenile Justice 184
 
Ex Parte Crouse: Challenging Parens Patriae 187
 
People v. Turner: Over-Ruling Crouse 188
 
The Child-Saving Movement and the Juvenile Court 189
 
"The Best Place to Conquer Girls" 195
 
The Juvenile Court and the Double Standard of Juvenile Justice 196
 
Deinstitutionalization and Judicial Paternalism: Challenges to the Double Standard of Juvenile Justice 200
 
Unpopular Reform? 201
 
Recent Trends: Finally a Focus on Girls, the Republican Backlash, and C

About the author

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 and Crime (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.

Summary

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.

Report

"Twenty years after publication of the first edition, this remains the definitive source for understanding both the experiences that bring girls into the orbit of the juvenile justice system and the system itself. This immensely valuable book should be required reading for anyone studying or working in juvenile justice."
 
--Marjorie S. Zatz, Arizona State University
 
"Instructors of criminal justice or criminology looking for a textbook on the girl delinquent would be hard pressed to find a more comprehensive and brilliantly delivered one than Chesney-Lind and Shelden's Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice. The fact that it is now in its 4th edition speaks volumes about how well it has been received by members of the academy. Both authors are known nationally and internationally as highly regarded experts on girl delinquents and this comes through in the pages of this textbook."
 
--Barbara Sims, Mars Hill University

Product details

• Authors: M Chesney-Lind, Med Chesney-Lind, Meda Chesney-Lind, Meda Shelden Chesney-Lind, Professor Meda Chesney-Lind, Professor Meda Shelden Chesney-Lind, Randall G Shelden, Randall G. Shelden
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2014
• EAN: 9781118454060
• ISBN: 978-1-118-45406-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Kriminologie, Law, Criminology, Rechtswissenschaft, Pönologie, Penology & Police Science, Pönologie u. Polizeiwissenschaft