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Justice for girls? : stability and change in the youth justice systems of the United States and Canada / Jane B. Sprott and Anthony N. Doob ; with a foreword by Franklin E. Zimring.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sprott, Jane B.
- Series:
- Adolescent development and legal policy.
- Adolescent development and legal policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Female juvenile delinquents--United States.
- Female juvenile delinquents.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of.
- Female juvenile delinquents--Canada.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of--Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For over a century, as women have fought for and won greater freedoms, concern over an epidemic of female criminality, especially among young women, has followed. Fear of this crime wave-despite a persistent lack of evidence of its existence-has played a decisive role in the development of the youth justice systems in the United States and Canada. Justice for Girls? is a comprehensive comparative study of the way these countries have responded to the hysteria over "girl crime" and how it has affected the treatment of both girls and boys. Tackling a century of
- Contents:
- Criminal girls and girls in youth justice
- Are sugar and spice really evolving into snips and snails and puppy-dog tails?
- Paternalism and the social control of adolescent girls: juvenile justice reform in the United states
- Paternalism and the social control of adolescent girls: juvenile justice reform in Canada
- The impact of law reform: deinstitutionalization in law and practice in the United States
- The impact of law reform: deinstitutionalization in law and practice in Canada
- Continuity and change in justice for girls
- Appendixes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613159779
- 9781283159777
- 1283159775
- 9780226770062
- 0226770060
- OCLC:
- 733040343
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