Offending girls : young women and youth justice / Gilly Sharpe.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharpe, Gilly
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Female juvenile delinquents > Great Britain.
Juvenile corrections > Great Britain.
Physical Description:xiv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • New offending girls?
  • Historical perspectives on offending girls
  • The construction of a girlhood crime wave: recent trends in young women's lawbreaking and criminalisation
  • Researching new offending girls
  • Pathways into crime and criminalisation
  • Accounting for trouble: the girls' perspectives
  • The trouble with girls today: professional perspectives on young women's offending
  • Youth justice for girls in the twenty-first century?
  • Conclusions and recommendations.