Girls
in Trouble with the Law
Price: $23.95
Subtitle:
Author: Laurie Schaffner
Subject: Sociology/Criminology/Family
and Childhood studies
Paper ISBN 0-8135-3834-3
Pages: 272 pp. 18 b&w illus,
12 tables
Series: Series in Childhood Studies
"A new ethnography featuring girls' voices from detention
facilities: the hidden crisis in gender, adolescence, and the law."
Praise for Girls in Trouble with the Law
"Girls in Trouble with the Law offers readers a
brilliant window for re-viewing the gender, race, and class politics of
juvenile justice. Readers will be filled with outrage, and yet fueled
by Schaffner's passionate sense of possibility and vision for 'what
must be.'"-Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, The
Graduate Center, CUNY.
"This is a superb
work, intermingling poetry, narrative, interviews, and examples to
create a fascinating overview of what girls experience in the juvenile
corrections system, as well as how they are perceived by the people
entrusted with their care. Schaffner's book is well-conceived,
beautifully written and extremely clear."-Lynn Chancer, author of High Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases
Become Social Causes
"A much needed,
well-grounded exploration of the trials and tribulations of
aggressive
girls who fall prey to the accumulation of social risk factors in their
lives. Schaffner blends first-hand accounts with empirical data from
multiple sources to tell a compelling nonfiction narrative."-James
Garbarino, author of See Jane Hit:
Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It
Description:
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.
About the Author:
Laurie Schaffner is an associate professor in the Department
of Criminal Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Table of Contents:
Illustrations
Tables
Preface
Introduction: Girls Trouble the Law
Chapter One: New Troubles for Girls
Chapter Two: Injury, Gender, and Trouble
Chapter Three: Empty Families, Sexuality, and Trouble
Chapter Four: Gender, Violence, and Trouble
Chapter Five: Children, Gender, and Corrections
Chapter Six: Pathways, Politics, Policies, and Programs
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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