Key features

• •Including global perspectives and coverage of cutting-edge research, this is the only textbook to deal exclusively with girls and crime
• •Offers expanded coverage of girls in gangs and emerging literature on the sexual trafficking of girls
• •Pulls together and analyzes all existing literature on the subject of female delinquency
• •Brings to light new research on a wide range of issues, including the conditions of confinement for girls incarcerated in juvenile jails and prisons, Latina girls, and gender responsive programming
• •Explores the moral panic around "violent," "bad," and "mean" girls