Fighting for Girls: New Perspectives on Gender and Violence

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v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTENTS List of Tables and Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones PART I. REAL TRENDS IN FEMALE VIOLENCE: GETTING TOUGH ON GIRLS Chapter 1 Have “Girls Gone Wild”? 13 Mike Males Chapter 2 Criminalizing Assault: Do Age and Gender Matter? 33 Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel Chapter 3 Jailing “Bad” Girls: Girls’ Violence and Trends in Female Incarceration 57 Meda Chesney-Lind PART II. GIRLS’ VIOLENCE: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS AND CONCERNS Chapter 4 The Gendering of Violence in Intimate Relationships: How Violence Makes Sex Less Safe for Girls 83 Melissa E. Dichter, Julie A. Cederbaum, and Anne M. Teitelman Chapter 5 Policing Girlhood? Relational Aggression and Violence Prevention 107 Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin vi CONTENTS Chapter 6 “I don’t know if you consider that as violence . . .”: Using Attachment Theory to Understand Girls’ Perspectives on Violence 129 Judith A. Ryder Chapter 7 Reducing Aggressive Behavior in Adolescent Girls by Attending to School Climate 149 Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson Chapter 8 Negotiations of the Living Space: Life in the Group Home for Girls Who Use Violence 175 Marion Brown PART III. GIRLS’ VIOLENCE: EXPLANATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS Chapter 9 “It’s about being a survivor . . .”: African American Girls, Gender, and the Context of Inner-City Violence 203 Nikki Jones Chapter 10 The Importance of Context in the Production of Older Girls’ Violence: Implications for the Focus of Interventions 219 Merry Morash, Suyeon Park, and Jung-mi Kim Epilogue Moral Panics, Violence, and the Policing of Girls: Reasserting Patriarchal Control in the New Millennium 241 Walter S. DeKeseredy About the Contributors 255 Index 261 ...