Description |
353 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-339) and index. |
Contents |
Historical perspectives. Sex in the gang / by Frederic M. Thrasher -- A reporter at large : "the Persian queens" / by Robert Rice -- Jailbait : the story of juvenile delinquency / by William Bernard -- The chicana gang : a preliminary description / by John Quicker -- Black female gangs in Philadelphia / by Waln K. Brown -- Black female gang behavior : an historical and ethnographic perspective / by Laura T. Fishman. Emerging theoretical perspectives on gender and gang membership. Girls, guys, and gangs : the changing social context of female delinquency / by Peggy Giordano -- Self-definition by rejection : the case of gang girls / by Anne Campbell -- From patriarchy to gender : feminist theory, criminology, and the challenge of diversity / by James Messerschmidt -- Responding to female gang involvement / by G. David Curry. "Doing gender" in times of economic and social change. Gang members' families / by Joan W. Moore -- What happens to girls in the gang? / by Joan W. Moore and John M. Hagedorn -- Female gangs : an historical perspective / by Carl S. Taylor -- "Just every mother's angel" : an analysis of gender and ethnic variations in youth gang membership / by Karen Joe and Meda Chesny-Lind -- Women, men, and gangs : the social construction of gender in the barrio / by Eduardo Luis Portillos. Girls, gangs and violence. Female gang members' social representations of aggression / by Anne Campbell -- Fighting female : the social construction of female gangs / by John M. Hagedorn and Mary L. Devitt -- Violence among girls : does gang membership make a difference? / by Elizabeth Piper Deschenes and Finn-Aage Esbensen -- Girls, gangs, and violence : reinventing the liberated female crook / by Meda Chesny-Lind. |
Subject |
Gangs -- United States.
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Female juvenile delinquents -- United States.
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Female offenders -- United States.
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Added Author |
Chesney-Lind, Meda.
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Hagedorn, John, 1947-
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ISBN |
0941702480 alkaline paper |
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0941702472 paperback alkaline paper |
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