Jailing "bad" girls: Girls' violence and trends in female incarceration

Fighting for Girls: New Perspectives on Gender and Violence

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 57-79

  Chesney Lind, Meda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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