Gilly Sharpe

Offending Girls (eBook, ePUB)

Young Women and Youth Justice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offending Girls challenges simplistic representations of 'bad' girls in the twenty-first century and argues that the interventionist thrust which characterizes the contemporary youth justice system has had a particularly pernicious impact on girls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136617843
• Artikelnr.: 38271483

Autorenporträt

Gilly Sharpe is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Sheffield. She is currently engaged in research on desistance from crime, focusing particularly on women (ex)offenders. Prior to her academic career, she spent several years working as a practitioner in youth justice and related fields.

Inhaltsangabe

1. New Offending Girls? 2. Historical Perspectives on Offending Girls 3.
The Construction of a Girlhood Crime Wave: Recent Trends in Young Women's
Lawbreaking and Criminalisation 4. Reseraching New Offending Girls 5.
Pathways into Crime and Criminalisation 6. Accounting for Trouble: The
Girls' Perspectives 7. The Trouble with Girls Today: Professional
Perspectives on Young Women's Offending 8. Youth Justice for Girls in the
Twenty-First Century 9. Conclusions and Recommendations