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Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice / Meda Chesney-Lind, Randall G. Shelden.
LIBRA HV9104 .C39 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chesney-Lind, Meda.
- Series:
- Contemporary issues in crime and justice series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Female juvenile delinquents--United States.
- Female juvenile delinquents.
- United States.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Belmont, CA : West/Wadsworth, [1998]
- Summary:
- This text is intended as a supplement for courses in juvenile delinquency, or for special topics courses on women in criminal justice. This is the first book devoted solely to the topic of female delinquency and the treatment of young girls by the juvenile justice system. The book sheds new light on the special problems of delinquent girls by taking into account what it is like to grow up female in a patriarchal society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0534264786
- OCLC:
- 36461704
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