Fighting for girls: new perspectives on gender and violence

pt. I. Real trends in female violence: getting tough on girls. Have "girls gone wild"? / Mike Males

Criminalizing assault: do age and gender matter? / Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel

Jailing 'bad' girls: girls' violence and trends in female incarceration / Meda Chesney-Lind

pt. II. Girls' violence: institutional contexts and concerns. The gendering of violence in intimate relationships: how violence makes sex less safe for girls / Melissa E. Dichter, Julie A. Cederbaum, and Anne M. Teitelman

Policing girlhood? Relational aggression and violence prevention / Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin

"I don't know if you consider that as violence": using attachment theory to understand girls' perspectives on violence / Judith A. Ryder

Reducing aggressive behavior in adolescent girls by attending to school climate / Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson

Negotiations of the living space: life in the group home for girls who use violence / Marion Brown

pt. III. Girls' violence: explanations and implications. "It's about being a survivor": African American girls, gender, and the context of inner city violence / Nikki Jones

The importance of context in the production of older girls' violence: implications for the focus of interventions / Merry Morash, Suyeon Park, and Jung-mi Kim

Moral panics, violence, and the policing of girls: reasserting patriarchal control in the new millennium / Walter S. DeKeseredy.

Introduction / Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones

Have "girls gone wild"? / Mike Males

Criminalizing assault : do age and gender matter? / Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel

Jailing 'bad' girls : girls' violence and trends in female incarceration / Meda Chesney-Lind

The gendering of violence in intimate relationships : how violence makes sex less safe for girls / Melissa Dichter, Julie Cederbaum, and Anne Teitelman

Policing girlhood? Relational aggression and violence prevention / Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin

"I don't know if you consider that as violence" : using attachment theory to understand girls' perspectives on violence / Judith A. Ryder

Reducing aggressive behavior in adolescent girls by attending to school climate / Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson

Negotiations of the living space : life in the group home for girls who use violence / Marion Brown

"It's about being a survivor" : African American girls, gender, and the context of inner city violence / Nikki Jones

The importance of context in the production of older girls' violence : implications for the focus of interventions / Merry Morash, Suyeon Park, and Jung Mi Kim

Epilogue.