ABSTRACT
Are girls going wild in this post-feminist era? Clearly, this book has argued that despite evidence from arrest data that girls are getting more violent, most of the other available data suggest that changes in the policing of girls, particularly in aspects of girls’ lives that had previously been outside formal social control, explain the increases seen in arrests. Notably, increased social control of girls in the family, the peer group, and the school system have served to push increasing numbers of girls into the formal system of social control—the juvenile justice system—for offenses that were previously either ignored or labeled as non-violent offenses.
