See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 303.6083520973 EAN: 9780143038689 ISBN: 0143038680 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: 2007-01-30 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Editorial Reviews: From one of America’s leading authorities on juvenile violence comes a groundbreaking investigation of the explosion of violent behavior in girls With Lost Boys, James Garbarino became our foremost explicator of violent behavior in boys. Now he turns his attention to its increasing incidence in girls. Twenty-five years ago, ten boys were arrested for assault for every one girl. Now that ratio is four-to-one and dropping. Combining clinical experience with incisive analyses of social trends, Garbarino traces the factors—many of them essentially positive—behind the epidemic: girls’ increased participation in sports and greater comfort with their physicality, but also their lack of training in handling aggression. See Jane Hit goes beyond diagnosing the problem to outline a clear-eyed, compassionate solution.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: misinterpretation of the data Comment: Experts in the field including the FBI reveal that the apparent increase in female youth violence represents a policy change in the arrests for family violence. Police generally are required to make an arrest in situations of domestic violence. So when teens get violent against their parents and the police are called, the arrest rate goes up. There is no reason for this book with its false claims to have been published. The claims are consistent with the media hype and anti-feminist sentiment but not with the criminal justice statistics. Katherine van Wormer co-author of Women and the Criminal Justice System Customer Rating: Summary: Finally Comment: Ask any high school principal and they will tell you that 9 times out of 10, girl fights are WAY more violent and dangerous than boy fights. They are much harder to break up, and it is much harder to keep the same girls from fighting again because girls are more apt to fight in retaliation for past 'offenses' and slights. QUite simply, girls just DO NOT give up. Liberal and feminist academics, most of whom do not live in ghettos or lower class neighborhoods (and who are henceforth not very concerned with violence among female minorities), will do absolutely anything they can to convince the public that violence among girls is not a problem, and that, of course, boys are the real culprits. If these people do happen to admit their is a problem, their solution is rationalization, "Yeah buts," and more social coddling. Of course, the real liberal and femminazi goal is to continue to vilify boys and maleness in general and ignore that anything bad is happening in the world of girldom. Think back to grade school and high school. Remember the evil cliques, the back-stabbing, the rumor-spreading, all the nasty, covert aggression that girls partook in? Have you ever wondered why women have a hard time bonding with one another in adulthood? It's not because they were so nice to one another in girlhood. Think about it: How many boys wind up in the hospital for bulemia? How many boys pick on other boys and socially isolate them because they're not wearing the latest Tiffany's charm bracelet? Physical violence is only the surface with what's wrong with girls today. Customer Rating: Summary: I don't have my PHD. I've just worked with teens for 20 years. Comment: I think this book offers solid discussion about girls and growing violence. As someone who works with teens, as an author and ministry worker and speaker to teens, I'm not worried about the statistics near as much as what I see happening in the lives of some of our girls. There is more violence among girls. Our younger girls are losing their innocence, many are accepting less than any other generation in terms of relationships, and many are angry. I love working with teens. This is an amazing generation. They are intelligent. They are able to do more than their mothers and grandmothers, but the reality is that a growing segment of young girls are reacting with violence, and this book offers some insight. Does it have all the answers? Absolutely not, but neither do I, but it asks some great questions and offers some interesting information that should trigger conversations among those who care about our girls. Customer Rating: Summary: They need a ZERO star rating Comment: Now, I think talking about any child, regardless of sex, being violent is ian important subject. But when you focus the discussion on girls then you're completely missing the point and putting the undeserved and unfair attention on girls NOT BOYS. For example: Let's say you're a parent and you have 6 kids (5 boys, 1 girl) and every week, your 5 boys fight with each other and they get into fights at school. Every week they get sent home for fighting, cursing, bad behavior, etc. Then one day, your one daughter, who has no history of such behavior, gets sent home from school for fighting. Suddenly its "OMG Peggy Sue got into a fight. What's wrong with my daughter!? This is all the WNBA's fault!!!" Boys fighting should not be "boys being boys." teaching young men and boys that this is normal, and not calling them out while lambasting girls is such a male-dominated view to take. ZERO stars folks! stay away! Customer Rating: Summary: IMPORTANT BOOK FOR PARENTS Comment: I completely disagree with the previous reviewer who slams this book (and others with similar concerns about today's youth) in such a tunnel vision manner. This book is an important social commentary for any parent to read, and for any adult to ponder. Any parent who has had the challenge of raising a girl in today's violence-filled society, knows the real story. The complete real story may be too big to fit into one book, but THIS book is about an issue that is very close to parents' hearts. And it should be. Is it alarmist to be concerned about today's girls when it comes to the impact of violence in their lives? I suspect readers will be intelligent enough to read this book for what it is: A concerned and informed point of view about girls and young women. More Reviews