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Growing Up Good is an international investigation of the ways in which gendered behaviour is imposed on girls through European criminal justice systems. The book successfully combines a feminist critique of criminological theory with in-depth research on girls′ actual experience of court procedures and custodial regimes. Vivid accounts of institutional life and alternative treatment demonstrate the implicit and explicit reinforcement of gender stereotypes, male and female, despite or even because of avowed intentions about equal treatment.

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• Introduction
• Feminists transgress criminology
• Part 1 The Policing of Girls In Everyday Life
• Learning to love
• Sexual reputation, morality and the social control of girls
• Boys, girls and the discourse of identity
• Growing up in Madrid
• Part 2 Routes to Illegality
• A typology of life and work styles of 'heroin-prostitutes'
• From a male career model to a feminized career model
• Young women prostitutes in Bilbao
• A description and an interpretation
• Girls in street gangs in the suburbs of Paris
• Part 3 Decision-Making About Girls Within The Criminal Justice System
• Justice or welfare? A comparison of recent developments in the English and French juvenile justice systems
• Gypsy girls in an Italian juvenile court
• Part 4 How Not To Treat Girls . . .
• The institutional control of girls and boys
• An attempt at a gender-specific approach
• Compounded misunderstanding
• Relations between staff and girls in an Italian juvenile prison
• Intermediate treatment for girls in England and Wales
• Part 5 And How To Care for Girls
• Young female drug misusers
• Towards an appropriate policy
• 'Troublesome girls' -- Towards alternative definitions and policies
• Appendix
• Girls in the European criminal courts
• A comparative view

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The feminist authors of these studies reporting on the policing of girls' behavior in Europe find that not only are criminal actions policed but also that nontraditional female behavior gets the attention of the authorities. Both formal and informal policing focus on training girls to be traditional females, i.e., dependent on males, passive, nurturing, etc. This pattern exists in varying degrees of directness in all the countries from which reports are given. The studies consist mostly of interviews, small-group studies, and participant observer fieldwork. The appendix provides some comparative statistics. A reference list and an index are included. An outgrowth of an Italian conference, the volume suffers from the varied quality and different perspectives of the individual studies; but its central point--that social workers, the juvenile justice systems, and much of society in Europe still define women and girls in terms of their relationships to males and pressure females into gendered behaviors--is strongly made. Upper-division undergraduates and above. V. P. Caruso Nazareth College