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Girls in Trouble with the Law
Engelsk Paperback
Girls in Trouble with the Law
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9780813538341
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0813538343
Udg. Dato:
6 sep 2006
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Rutgers University Press
Oplagsdato:
6 sep 2006
Forfatter(e):
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