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Girls, Youth Justice and the Regulation of Sexualities

Girls, Youth Justice and the Regulation of Sexualities

Pasko, Lisa

Hardcover

Series: Anthem Studies in Sexuality, Gender and Culture

CriminologyGeneral Gender Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 31, 2028

ISBN10: 1785277049
ISBN13: 9781785277047
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: Dec 31 2028
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Girls, Youth Justice, and the Regulation of Sexualities examines the youth justice system's construction, control, and overall reaction to girls' sexualities, from early Child Savers Movements to the twenty-first century. The book shows how despite of, and occasionally due to, transformations in juvenile justice processing and corrections, the correctional focus--through one definition or another--continues to be on girls' sexual behavior as cause for legal response, detention, and commitment. In the early eras, courts and corrections noted poor moral character and various environmental causes for girls' sexually impish behavior: bad families, alcohol or drug use, poverty, immigrant status and the lure of the military man. Girls were incarcerated for immorality, incorrigibility, and truancy, but underlying the recorded charge was usually some form of sexual delinquency. Despite these external factors, girls were made to be responsible for their own choices and occasionally their own victimization, with staff often noting promiscuous girls as too adventurous, unadjusted, defective, and amazingly indifferent to her actions on herself and parents. Suffering from moral degeneration, girls were sentenced to reform school in order to supply a home; to provide protection from physical abuse; to prevent further lewd acts; and to effect moral salvation. Utilizing interviews with justice professionals, the book also shows how in the contemporary era, a shift from the moral domain to psychological and medical authority occurred, with the same environmental conditions understood as leading girls to risky sexual behaviors and delinquent activity. Regardless of structural constraints and difficulties, the focus remained on girls' bad choices and refusal to accept responsibility. Such behaviors were pathologized as an illness, resulting from another psychological/personality disorder.

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