Offending girls : young women and youth justice

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharpe, Gilly (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge , c2012
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. New offending girls?
  • 2. Historical perspectives on offending girls
  • 3. The construction of a girlhood crime wave: recent trends in young women's lawbreaking and criminalisation
  • 4. Researching new offending girls
  • 5. Pathways into crime and criminalisation
  • 6. Accounting for trouble: the girls' perspectives
  • 7. The trouble with girls today: professional perspectives on young women's offending
  • 8. Youth justice for girls in the twenty-first century?
  • 9. Conclusions and recommendations