Offending Girls: Young Women and Youth Justice 113661785X, 9781136617850

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls’ offending in Britain reached fever pitch. No longer sugar an

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Offending Girls: Young Women and Youth Justice
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For over a century, as women have fought for and won greater freedoms, concern over an epidemic of female criminality, e

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In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Ye

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Reveals how gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation in ways that impact the legal status and well-bei

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This book, based on extensive, original research, details the changing lives of youth living in slum communities (bustee

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Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States today. Lynne H

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In Praising Girls, Henrietta Rix Wood explores how ordinary schoolgirls engaged in extraordinary rhetorical activities d

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What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends so

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During the first half of the twentieth century, out-of-wedlock pregnancy came to be seen as one of the most urgent and c

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