Publisher's Synopsis
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.
