new perspectives on gender and violence
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Chesney-Lind, Meda > (ed.)
- Creator
- Jones, Nikki > (ed.)
- Contributor
- DeKeseredy, Walter S.
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2010
- Thesaurus
- geweld, meisjes, media, seksualiteit, onderwijs, zwarte meisjes, etniciteit, statistiek, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This book focuses on data available about actual trends in girls’ uses of violence, the scholars here find that by virtually any measure, incidents of girls’ violence are going down, not up. Additionally, rather than attributing girls’ violence to personality or to girls becoming “more like boys,” the contributors examine the contexts that produce violence in girls, demonstrating how addressing the unique problems that confront girls in dating relationships, families, school hallways and classrooms, and in distressed urban neighborhoods can help reduce girls’ use of violence.