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Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice, 4th Edition

Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice, 4th Edition

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  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN: 9781118454060
  • Published In: January 2014
  • Format: Paperback , 360 pages
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    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
  • 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 Congressional Gridlock 204

    Summary 208

    Notes 209

    References 210

    8 The Contemporary Juvenile Justice System and Girls, Part I: Police and Juvenile Court Processing 215

    An Overview of the System and Process 215

    Th e Rights of Juveniles: A Review of Key Cases 216

    Implications of Supreme Court Rulings for Girls 219

    Getting into the System 221

    Girls on the Streets 222

    Girls at the Station House 225

    Delinquents in Court 228

    Gender and Delinquency Referrals 229

    Comparing Girls and Boys in Court 232

    Girls, Race, and the New Double Standard of Juvenile Justice 235

    Summary 237

    Notes 238

    References 238

    9 The Contemporary Juvenile Justice System and Girls, Part II: Girls in Institutions 243

    Youths in Institutions: A National Overview 244

    Number of girls in institutions 244

    Private facilities: a problematic option for juvenile justice 247

    Demographic Characteristics of Youths in Institutions 250

    Status off enses and bootstrapping, a continuing problem 250

    Girls in detention 251

    Girls’ experiences in detention 253

    Gender and training schools – girls’ victimization continues 259

    Girls, race, and institutionalization 263

    Summary 266

    Notes 267

    References 268

    10 In Their Own Words: Voices of Youths at Risk 273

    With assistance from Vera Lopez and Julia Foley Introduction 273

    Relationship Power, Control, and Dating Violence Among Latina Girls 275

    Boys’ control strategies 276

    Girls’ counterstrategies 278

    The “Risky” Lives of Girl Delinquents: Bottcher’s California Study 281

    Summary 284

    Note 285

    References 285

    11 Programs for Girls in Trouble 286

    Interconnected Troubles 286

    Trauma 287

    Destructive and distraught families 287

    Dangerous neighborhoods and unsafe schools 288

    Substance abuse 289

    Health issues 290

    Academic achievement 290

    Specific Types of Counseling and Education 292

    The Detention Diversion Advocacy Project (DDAP) 292

    Gender differences 294

    Gaps in Services for Girls 296

    Explaining the lack of services for girls 297

    The fit of assessed needs, expressed needs, and program descriptions 299

    Someone to talk to 300

    Improving relationships with peers 301

    Sex, sexuality, pregnancy, parenting, and relationships with intimate partners 301

    Empowerment 303

    Multiple needs and wraparound services 304

    Assessed Needs, Expressed Needs, and Contemporary Program Evaluations 304

    The Ideal Program 306

    Instead of Incarceration: What Could Be Done to Meet the Needs of Girls? 308

    Are Gender-Specific Programs Necessary? 310

    Programming as if Girls Mattered: Getting Past Girls Watching Boys Play Sports 311

    Lack of validated gender-specific programs: programming and the “forgotten few” 311

    Honolulu Girls Court: Overview of a Promising Best Practice 312

    Policy Implications and Future Directions 314

    Summary 315

    Notes 317

    References 318

    12 Conclusions 324

    Index 331

  • 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.

  • “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

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