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Beyond bad girls :

Chesney-Lind, Meda.

Beyond bad girls : gender, violence and hype / Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin. - New York : Routledge, ©2008. - x, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-213) and index.

Girls gone wild? -- The new bad girl : constructing mean and violent girls -- Speaking of girls -- Growing up female : families and the regulation of girlhood -- Policing girls? Peer groups : Columbine and the hunt for girl bullies -- Pathologizing girls? Relational aggression and violence prevention -- Policing girlhood : sexism, schools, and the anti-violence movement -- Still "the best place to conquer girls" : girls and the juvenile justice system -- Policing gone wild.

Through interviews with young women, educators and people in the criminal justice system, this text exposes the formal and informal systems of socio-cultural control imposed on girls.

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Girls--Psychology.--United States
Mass media and girls--United States.
Violence in children--United States.
Violence in adolescence--United States.
Filles--Psychologie.--�Etats-Unis
M�edias et filles--�Etats-Unis.
Violence chez l'enfant--�Etats-Unis.
Violence chez l'adolescent--�Etats-Unis.
Girls--Psychology.
Mass media and girls.
Violence in adolescence.
Violence in children.
Meisjes.
Massamedia.
Beeldvorming.
Geweld.
Afwijkend gedrag.
Weibliche Jugend.
Jugendpsychologie.
Aggressivit�at.
Massenmedien.
M�adchen.
Gewalt.


United States.
USA.

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