Girls and Juvenile Justice Power, Status, and the Social Constructio
‘In this fascinating study, Davis provides an insightful account of the lived realities of girls in the juvenile justice system. Drawing on a unique mixture of ethnographic observations and interviews, Davis reveals how young women struggle for dignity am
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CARLA P. DAVIS
Girls and Juvenile Justice
“Girls and Juvenile Justice offers an original and insightful analysis of the distinctive character of female delinquency. Davis show how family responses to adolescent troubles and resistance to control, rather than crime-like delinquent behavior per se, may move girls from ghetto and barrio families and neighborhoods into the juvenile justice system. Drawing on rich qualitative interview and observational data, she identifies the perspectives and concerns of incarcerated delinquent girls, tracing their familial and institutional careers as they are brought to juvenile court, adapt to a therapeutically oriented reform school, and are released back to their families and communities. A sensitive and moving study of critical processes in contemporary responses to troubled adolescents!” —Robert M. Emerson, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA “The much-needed conversation this book provides has great value in the field of criminology, where a focus on girls and their lives is often absent, excluded, and trivialized. Davis offers her readers insight into and understanding of girls who are in trouble with the law, both before and after incarceration. In this way, she “connects the dots” in female delinquents’ pathways to justice involvement and offers a rare glimpse of the complex processes and relationships that encompass their lives.” —Lisa Pasko, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver, USA “Rich with the voices of adolescent urban girls involved in the justice system and the professionals who work with them, Girls and Juvenile Justice explores both the causes of the behavior that led to this involvement and society’s reaction to that behavior. In creating this vivid portrait, Davis increases our understanding of the ideas and values that ground both the girls’ choices and the institutional ways of addressing those choices. Davis argues that the girls actually fully accept mainstream values; that current therapeutic approaches ignore the role of the hierarchical structures of class, race/ethnicity and gender in creating their “undesirable” behaviors; and that such approaches, in fact, reinforce those hierarchies. Because her original analysis includes specific recommendations, this book will not only advance the theoretical discussions of scholars, but should also inform the practices of those in various professional roles within the juvenile justice system.” —Judith Rollins, Professor emerita, Wellesley College, USA, Author of Between Women
Carla P. Davis
Girls and Juvenile Justice Power, Status, and the Social Construction of Delinquency
Carla P. Davis Beloit College Beloit, Wisconsin, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-42844-4 ISBN 978-3-319-42845-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42845-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016956448 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publ
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