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Reveals the perspectives of actual teenage runaways to help professionals, parents, and youths understand the widespread social problem of 'last resort' behavior. This title helps you learn the real reasons teenagers run away, and lets you hear the anguished voices of the teenage runaways themselves, shattering the myth that only bad kids runaway.

In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside juvenile detention centers and explores the worlds of the young women incarcerated within. Across the nation, girls of color are disproportionately represented in detention facilities, and many report having experienced physical harm and sexual assaults. For girls, the meaning of these and other factors such as the violence they experience remain undertheorized and below the radar of mainstream sociolegal scholarship. When gender is considered as an analytic category, Schaffner shows how gender is often seen...