Girls in Trouble with the Law

Girls in Trouble with the Law
Author: Laurie Schaffner
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813538334

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Juvenile arrest rates in the United States have declined over the past decade, yet the percentage of girls in trouble with the law increased. Girls now enter the juvenile legal system for violent offenses in addition to minor violations for which previous generations of young women have always been detained. In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside female detention centers and explores the worlds of those who are incarcerated. Across the country, she finds t.


Girls in Trouble with the Law
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Laurie Schaffner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Juvenile arrest rates in the United States have declined over the past decade, yet the percentage of girls in trouble with the law increased. Girls now enter th
Girls in Trouble with the Law
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Laurie Schaffner
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Looks at female detention centers in the United States and explores the worlds of the young women of who are incarcerated.
Girl Trouble
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Joan Sangster
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-08 - Publisher: Between the Lines

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Girl Trouble
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Joan Sangster
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Between The Lines

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The book examines the history of female delinquency in Canada from the intitial years of the Juvenile Delinquents Act, passed in 1908, to the first major, susta
In Trouble
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Ellen Levine
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-01 - Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

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Jamie and Elaine have been best friends forever, and now they're finally juniors in high school. Elaine has a steady boyfriend, and Jamie could have one?if she'