Girls in Trouble with the Law / / Laurie Schaffner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Schaffner, Laurie,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 18

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. New Troubles for Girls -- 2. Injury, Gender, and Trouble -- 3. Empty Families, Sexuality, and Trouble -- 4. Gender, Violence, and Trouble -- 5. Children, Gender, and Corrections -- 6. Conclusion: Pathways, Policies, Programs, and Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index