Fighting for Girls: New Perspectives on Gender and Violence

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261 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Abandonment, 64, 133, 161 Abstinence, 83, 92–96, 256 teen pregnancy pact, 24 Adjudicated girls, 6, 130, 134–135 Ahmed, Eliza: violence as response to shame, 161 American Bar Association (ABA), 64, 73 American Civil Liberties Union: investigations into youth detention, 60, 68–71 Anderson, Elijah, 93, 205–208, 216 Anti-bullying legislation, 109–119 Columbine High School massacre inspired policies, 60, 118–119 Arrest rates age, gender analysis, 25, 27, 36, 46, 50, 51 race, 28, 51 domestic relations, violence, 33, 36, 40 girls’ murder, homicide, and serious offenses, 23, 24, 26 girls’ technical violations, 61, 64, 66, 72 girls’ weapons law violations, 107 property crime, 34, 36 simple assault, 2, 3, 8, 26, 40–51, 58, 60–61, 66, 107–108 status offenses, 39, 60–61 Artz, Sibylle, 149–170, 248, 255 Assault aggravated assault, 40, 42, 44, 46, 50–51, 107–108, 111, 244 official offense label vs. girls’ perspectives, 137–143 other assaults, 58 Attachment Theory, 6 Ainsworth, Mary: impirical studies, 143 Bowlby, John, 140, 143, 188 contrasted with life course and developmental criminology, 133 girls violence and, 6, 129, 143, 178, 247 residential youth care and, 178 Baskin, Deborah: situational context of robberies, 131 Battered women: emotional v. physical pain, 245 Becca’s Bill, 71–72 Black, Donald, 38–41, 50 Bottcher, Jean: girls’ delinquency, 222 Braithwaite, Valerie: violence as response to shame, 161 Brown, Marion, 6–7, 65, 131, 175–248, 255 Bullying depression, 121 direct bullying, 115–116, 120– 121 indirect bullying (See also relational aggression) low self-esteem of victims, 121 Olweus, Dan, 111–121 suicide, 117, 121 261 INDEX 262 INDEX Bush administration policies, 243, 259 Buzawa, Eve, 3, 33–51, 243–244, 265 California girls: in juvenile detention, 65 Campbell, Anne: girls in gangs, 224 Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 60, 89–93, 116 Cederbaum, Julie A., 5, 83, 246, 256 Chesney-Lind, Meda, 1–5, 26, 57–60, 63, 71–73, 107–108, 113, 119–123, 242–249 Children Who Hate (Redl and Wineman), 177 Christie (1986): youth as ideal victims, 37 Cohen, Irwin: detention over treatment, 72 Collins, Patricia Hill masculinity, 88–89, 93, 205–206 sexual politics, 90 Columbia Training School violations, 69–70 Controls From Within (Redl and Wineman), 177 Corrado, Raymond, 72 Covert aggression, See also direct aggression, 108–112, 117–119 Crack cocaine: subject of violence, 130 Crick, Nicki, 113–116 Criminology, 8, 241, 251 constructionist, 3 developmental, 133, 141 feminist, 2, 30, 130, 246 neoconservative, 257, 258, 259, 260 voice, 2, 147, 195, 244, 250 Currie, Elliot, 243, 245–247, 250 Dating and violence, 2, 5, 8, 34, 84–89, 96, 242 Deinstitutionalization: no longer a priority, 60, 71 DeKeseredy, Walter S, 7, 216, 241–251 Delinquency, 24, 68, 72–73, 83, 160, 245 Delinquency antisocial behavior, 221 Caspi, Avshalom: early delinquency, 221 causal factors of, 8, 18, 150, 169–170, 219, 235 girls’, 8, 18, 58–61, 170 self-reported, 17, 24, 30, 59, 119–220, 235 Department of Justice, investigation of Mississippi training schools, 69–70 Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Girls Study Group, 14 Detention, youth Acoca, Leslie and Kelly Dedel: girls in California juvenile justice halls, 65–67 conditions of confinement, 64–65, 68–73 depression from separation from children, 65 gender and, 4, 58–73 human rights violations, 58, 71 isolation, 75, 79 private facilities, 63 race, 4, 58, 62, 179 rates, 4, 58, 60, 72 status offenses, 63–69 suicide, 65, 69–70 Dichter, Melissa E., 5, 83–88, 246–247 263 INDEX Direct aggression, 112 See also covert aggression Domestic relations, violence depression and low self-esteem, 96 mandatory arrests, 3, 8, 34, 36, 38, 108, 251 Education and parenting, 91 coeducational high school, 151 gendered behavior in college, 131 girls in detention, 69–70 girls’ self-reporting, 18, 27–30 young women in college, 29 Elkind, David: perils of puberty, 84 Ellickson, Phyllis L.: violence and low academic achievement, 222–223 Female Detention Project, 64 Femininity black girls navigation of, 216– 220 cultural expectation, 18 female delicateness, 24 in detention, 187–189 in group homes, 202–205 rejecting notions of, 141, 186 Foshee, Vangie A.: race, class, and partner violence, 89 Foucault, Michel Discipline and Punish, 193 conceptualization of surveillance, 193, 196–197 context and behavior in residential settings, 176 Garbarino, James, 13, 25, 28–29, 242–244 Gender-blind policies, 247 Girls’ arrest, 2, 60, 71...