Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice

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<p>The new edition of<i>Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice</i> combines cutting-edge research and expanded coverage of girls delinquency, including coverage of girls in gangs and the sexual trafficking of girls, to provide students with an accessible, up-to-date, and globally oriented textbook.</p><ul><li>Including global perspectives and coverage of cutting-edge research, this is the only textbook to deal exclusively with girls and crime</li><li>Offers expanded coverage of girls in gangs and emerging literature on the sexual trafficking of girls</li><li>Pulls together and analyzes all existing literature on the subject of female delinquency</li><li>Brings to light new research on a wide range of issues, including the conditions of confinement for girls incarcerated in juvenile jails and prisons, Latina girls, and gender responsive programming</li><li>Explores the moral panic around "violent," "bad," and "mean" girls</li></ul>

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<p><b>Meda Chesney-Lind</b> is Professor of Womens Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, her books include<i>The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime</i> (3rd edition, 2013),<i>Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice</i> (3rd edition, 2004),<i>Female Gangs in America</i> (1999),<i>Invisible Punishment</i> (2002),<i>Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and Hype</i> (2008), and<i>Feminist Theories of Crime</i> (2011).</p><b>Randall G. Shelden</b> is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He is the author or co-author of 15 books. Besides three previous editions of<i>Girls,</i> Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice (with Meda Chesney-Lind), his books include<i>Youth Gangs in American Society</i> (4th edition, 2013),<i>Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in American Society</i> (2nd edition, 2012),<i>Our Punitive Society</i> (2010), and<i>Controlling the Dangerous Classes</i> (2nd edition, 2008). He is co-editor of the online<i>Justice Policy Journal</i>.

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