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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

AbstractIn this address I make the case for continuing to focus criminological research on gender, sexism, and racism within our lives and within our profession. I also provide a brief case study of a topic many would feel falls well outside our field: reproductive rights. Data are reviewed to reveal the impact of gender on the lives of women—notably the devaluation of work done by women, particularly if the work is deemed feminist. Afterward, recent data on the persistence of both sexism and racism in our field are reviewed. Despite gains made by women (notably in the membership of the field), the highest positions in our professional association are held by men, particularly by White men. Data on the importance of reproductive rights to women are then considered, notably the fact that nearly one third of women will need abortion services by the time they reach middle age. Finally, I review recent efforts by conservatives to recriminalize abortion, specifically through the passage of laws making abortion difficult to arrange, or even outlawing the provision of abortion services. These efforts directly involve the criminal justice system in the criminalization of women's bodies.

A review of the nature of female delinquency (now accounting for 25% of juvenile arrests), as well as the juvenile justice system's long-documented bias against girls, suggests that careful consideration of girls' issues would shed considerable light on the shortcomings of the juvenile justice system as a whole. Specifically, the unique problems of girls, eg, sexual abuse, were long ignored by a system that purported to consider the best interests of the child. Instead, girls' survival strategies, such as running away from home, were criminalized. Contemporary congressional efforts to reform juvenile justice, focused almost exclusively on boys' violence, are likely to produce changes that will result in the compounding of girls' problems due to contact with a system that ignores their unique situations. 61 References. Adapted from the source document.

part PART I FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY -- chapter 1 Michele J. Burman, Susan A. Batchelor, and Jane A. Brown (2001), 'Researching Girls and Violence: Facing the Dilemmas of Fieldwork', British Journal of Criminology, 41, pp. 443–59. -- chapter 2 Elizabeth Comack (1999), 'Producing Feminist Knowledge: Lessons from Women in Trouble', Theoretical Criminology, 3, pp. 287–306. -- chapter 3 Russell P. Dobash and R. Emerson Dobash (2004), 'Women's Violence to Men in Intimate Relationships: Working on a Puzzle', British Journal of Criminology, 44, pp. 324–49. -- part PART II PATRIARCHY, CRIME AND JUSTICE -- chapter 4 Lisa Maher and Kathleen Daly (1996), 'Women in the Street-Level Drug Economy: Continuity or Change?', Criminology, 34, pp. 465–91. -- chapter 5 Teela Sanders (2004), 'The Risks of Street Prostitution: Punters, Police and Protesters', Urban Studies, 41, pp. 1703–17. -- chapter 6 Elizabeth A. Stanko (2006), 'Theorizing About Violence: Observations from the Economic and Social Research Council's Violence Research Program', Violence Against Women, 12, pp. 543–55. -- part PART III MASCULINITIES AND FEMININITIES -- chapter 7 Karen Joe Laidler and Geoffrey Hunt (2001), 'Accomplishing Femininity among the Girls in the Gang', British Journal of Criminology, 41, pp. 656–78. -- chapter 8 Katherine Irwin and Meda Chesney-Lind (2008), 'Girls' Violence: Beyond Dangerous Masculinity', Sociology Compass, 2, pp. 837–55. -- chapter 9 Mona J.E. Danner and Dianne Cyr Carmody (2001), 'Missing Gender in Cases of Infamous School Violence: Investigating Research and Media Explanation's', Justice Quarterly, 18, pp. 87–114. -- chapter 10 Hoan Bui and Merry Morash (2008), 'Immigration, Masculinity, and Intimate Partner Violence from the Standpoint of Domestic Violence Service Providers and Vietnamese-Origin Women', Feminist Criminology, 3, pp. 191–215. -- part PART IV INTERSECTIONS -- chapter 11 Hillary Potter (2006), 'An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology: Understanding African American Women's Experiences with Intimate Partner Abuse Using an Integrated Approach', Feminist Criminology, 1, pp. 106–24. -- chapter 12 Nikki Jones (2004), ' -- chapter 13 Yasmin Jiwani (2005), 'Walking a Tightrope: The Many Faces of Violence in the Lives of Racialized Immigrant Girls and Young Women', Violence Against Women, 11, pp. 846–75. -- chapter 14 Edna Erez, Madelaine Adelman and Carol Gregory (2009), 'Intersections of Immigration and Domestic Violence: Voices of Battered Immigrant Women', Feminist Criminology, 4, pp. 32–56. -- part PART V FEMINIST ASSESSMENTS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE ENTERPRISE -- chapter 15 John M. Macdonald and Meda Chesney-Lind (2001), 'Gender Bias and Juvenile Justice Revisited: A Multiyear Analysis', Crime and Delinquency, 47, pp. 173–95. -- chapter 16 Emily Gaarder, Nancy Rodriguez and Marjorie S. Zatz (2004), 'Criers, Liars and Manipulators: Probation Officers' Views of Girls', Justice Quarterly, 21, pp. 547–78. -- chapter 17 Kathleen J. Ferraro (2003), 'The Words Change, But the Melody Lingers: The Persistence of Battered Woman Syndrome in Criminal Cases Involving Battered Women', Violence Against Women, 9, pp. 110–29. -- chapter 18 Kelly Hannah-Moffat (1999), 'Moral Agent or Actuarial Subject: Risk and Canadian Women's Imprisonment', Theoretical Criminology, 3, pp. 71–94. -- chapter 19 Jill A. McCorkel (2003), 'Embodied Surveillance and the Gendering of Punishment', Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 32, pp. 41–76. -- chapter 20 Julia Sudbury (2002), 'Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Global Prison Industrial Complex', Feminist Review, 70, pp. 57–74. -- part PART VI FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON THE LAW AND ON JUSTICE -- chapter 21 Neal S. Websdale (1996), 'Predators: The Social Construction of -- chapter 22 Kathleen Daly and Julie Stubbs (2006), 'Feminist Engagement with Restorative Justice', Theoretical Criminology, 10, pp. 9–28. -- chapter 23 Tristan Anne Borer (2009), 'Gendered War and Gendered Peace: Truth Commissions and Postconflict Gender Violence: Lessons from South Africa', Violence Against Women, 15, pp. 1169–93.