Offending Girls: Young Women and Youth Justice by Gilly Sharpe (Paperback, 2013)

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Offending GirlsYoung Women and Youth Justice\nAuthor(s): Gilly Sharpe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Focal Press\nISBN-13: 9780415870498, 978-0415870498\nSynopsis\nAt the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls offending in Britain reached fever pitch. No longer sugar and spice, a new breed of girl, the hedonistic, violent, binge-drinking ladette, was reported to have emerged. At the same time, the number of young women entering the youth justice system, including youth custody, increased dramatically. Offending Girls challenges simplistic and demonising popular representations of 'bad' girls and examines what exactly is new about the new offending girl. In the light of enormous social and cultural changes affecting girls lives, and expectations of them, since previous British research in this area, the book investigates whether popular stereotypes problematising female youthful behaviour resonate with the accounts of cr.