Alder / Worrall Girls' Violence

Myths and Realities
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8491-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Women, Crime, and Criminology

A critical look at the perceived increase in girls' violence from a range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alder, Christine

Worrall, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. A Contemporary Crisis?
Christine Alder and Anne Worrall
2. Rough Girls, 1880–1930: The "Recent" History of Violent Young Women
Barry Godfrey
3. Twisted Sisters, Ladettes, and the New Penology: The Social Construction of "Violent Girls"
Anne Worrall
4. Racism, "Girl Violence," and the Murder of Reena Virk
Sheila Batacharya
5. Turbulent Talk: Girls' Making Sense of Violence
Michele Burman
6. Capturing Girls' Experiences of "Community Violence" in the United States
Laurie Schaffner
7. Coming Out to Play? Young Women and Violence on the Street
Jenny J. Pearce
8. Violence in the Schoolyard: School Girls' Use of Violence
Sibylle Artz
9. Situational Effects of Gender Inequality on Girls' Participation in Violence
Jody Miller and Norman A. White
Glossary of UK/Australian terms by chapter
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Alder is Principal Research Fellow in the Criminology Department at The University of Melbourne. She is the coeditor (with Rob White) of The Police and Young People in Australia and coauthor (with Ken Polk) of Child Victims of Homicide. Anne Worrall is Professor of Criminology at Keele University. She is the coeditor (with Pat Carlen) of Gender, Crime, and Justice and author of Offending Women: Female Lawbreakers and the Criminal Justice System and Punishment in the Community: The Future of Criminal Justice.