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
عن المؤلف
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.
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