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Girls in Trouble with the Law / Laurie Schaffner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rutgers Series in Childhood StudiesPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 18Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813538334
  • 9780813539461
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.36082/0973 22
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. New Troubles for Girls -- 2. Injury, Gender, and Trouble -- 3. Empty Families, Sexuality, and Trouble -- 4. Gender, Violence, and Trouble -- 5. Children, Gender, and Corrections -- 6. Conclusion: Pathways, Policies, Programs, and Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside juvenile detention centers and explores the worlds of the young women incarcerated within. Across the nation, girls of color are disproportionately represented in detention facilities, and many report having experienced physical harm and sexual assaults. For girls, the meaning of these and other factors such as the violence they experience remain undertheorized and below the radar of mainstream sociolegal scholarship. When gender is considered as an analytic category, Schaffner shows how gender is often seen through an outmoded lens. Offering a critical assessment of what she describes as a gender-insensitive juvenile legal system, Schaffner makes a compelling argument that current policies do not go far enough to empower disadvantaged girls so that communities can assist them in overcoming the social limitations and gender, sexual, and racial/ethnic discrimination that continue to plague young women growing up in contemporary United States.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. New Troubles for Girls -- 2. Injury, Gender, and Trouble -- 3. Empty Families, Sexuality, and Trouble -- 4. Gender, Violence, and Trouble -- 5. Children, Gender, and Corrections -- 6. Conclusion: Pathways, Policies, Programs, and Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside juvenile detention centers and explores the worlds of the young women incarcerated within. Across the nation, girls of color are disproportionately represented in detention facilities, and many report having experienced physical harm and sexual assaults. For girls, the meaning of these and other factors such as the violence they experience remain undertheorized and below the radar of mainstream sociolegal scholarship. When gender is considered as an analytic category, Schaffner shows how gender is often seen through an outmoded lens. Offering a critical assessment of what she describes as a gender-insensitive juvenile legal system, Schaffner makes a compelling argument that current policies do not go far enough to empower disadvantaged girls so that communities can assist them in overcoming the social limitations and gender, sexual, and racial/ethnic discrimination that continue to plague young women growing up in contemporary United States.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)