Delinquent girls contexts, relationships, and adaptation /
Traditionally, delinquent girls were considered an anomaly, a rare phenomenon attracting little scholarly notice. Today, more than one in four youth offenders is female, and researchers and practitioners alike are quickly turning their attention and resources to address this challenging situation. D...
| Other Authors: | Miller, Shari., Leve, Leslie D., Kerig, Patricia., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Springer,
©2012.
New York, NY : [2012] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 204 pages) |
| Subjects: |
Girls
-- Psychology.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Setting the stage
- pt. 2. Context and relationships
- pt. 3. Psychological functioning
- pt. 4. Intervention and implications for practice and policy.
- Setting the stage. Stability and change in girls' delinquency and the gender gap: trends in violence and alcohol offending across multiple sources of evidence / Jennifer Schwartz and Darrell Steffensmeier
- Crossing over: girls at the intersection of juvenile justice, criminal justice, and child welfare / Jennifer Woolard
- Girls in the juvenile justice system: the causes and correlates of girls' involvement / Stephanie Hawkins Anderson
- Context and relationships. Juvenile assault arrestees and their incidents: same and opposite gender relationships / Anne L. Stahl and Phyllis Coontz
- Girlfriends, gun-holders and ghetto-rats? moving beyond narrow views of girls in gangs / Dana Peterson
- Girls' relational orientation and interpersonal dynamics of delinquency / Shari Miller, Donna-Marie Winn, Jamilah Taylor and Traci Wiki
- Psychological functioning. Dealing with double jeopardy: mental health disorders among girls in the juvenile justice system / Emily G Marston, Mike A. Russell, Ingrid Obsuth, and Gillian K. Watson
- Trauma and girls' delinquency / Patricia K. Kerig and Stephen P. Becker
- Intervention and implications for practice and policy. Multidimensional treatment foster care as an intervention for juvenile justice girls in out-of-home care / Leslie D. Leve. Patricia Chamberlian, Dana K. Smith, and Gordon T Harold
- Risk for girls' delinquency: early intervention to promote healthy development / Alice Rubin-Vaughan, Debra Pepler, Margaret Walsh, Kathryn Levene, and Amy Yuile
- Addressing girls delinquency: recommendations for policymakers and practitioners / Janet Chiancone.