Girls and De-Institutionalization: Is Sexism and Juvenile Justice a Dead Issue? [microform] : Report No. 320 / Meda Chesney-Lind.

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 provided financial incentives to states to divert and deinstitutionalize status offenders. Recently, criticisms are surfacing that the federal involvement in the status offender issue was inappropriate and had given children the freedom to...

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Online Access:	Request ERIC Document
Main Author:	Chesney-Lind, Meda
Corporate Author:	University of Hawaii at Manoa. Youth Development and Research Center
Format:	Microfilm Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985.
Subjects:	Adolescents. Correctional Institutions. Delinquency. Females. Institutionalized Persons. Juvenile Courts. Parent Child Relationship. Runaways. Sex Bias.