Offending girls : young women and youth justice / Gilly Sharpe.
"Girls' bad behaviour has attracted seemingly relentless poplar attention in recent years, with girls' violence and girl gangs commonly constructed as urgent and growing social problems. At the same time, the number of young women entering the youth justice system, including youth cus...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- New offending girls?
- Historical perspectives on offending girls
- The construction of a girlhood crime wave: recent trends in young women's lawbreaking and criminalisation
- Researching new offending girls
- Pathways into crime and criminalisation
- Accounting for trouble: the girls' perspectives
- The trouble with girls today: professional perspectives on young women's offending
- Youth justice for girls in the twenty-first century?
- Conclusions and recommendations.