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Book Review: Girls and violence: Tracing the roots of criminal behavior

Book Review: Girls and violence: Tracing the roots of criminal behavior Book Reviews Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 2015, Vol. 30(2) 270-275 Book Reviews ª The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav aff.sagepub.com Ryder, A. J. (2014). Girls and violence: Tracing the roots of criminal behavior. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 209 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-58826-838-9. Reviewed by: Andrea S. Boyles, Lindenwood University-Belleville, Belleville, IL, USA DOI: 10.1177/0886109914549233 Marcella, a 15-year-old Puerto Rican girl, adjudicated and reprimanded to a New York residential youth facility as a violent offender, recalled committing a series of aggressive offenses from burning the hair of a homeless man while on a train to stabbing a boy in the neighborhood. For many, such actions are unconscionable. They defy social norms and expectations for how children should behave, and more specifically, girls. Inversely, Marcella’s actions further stereotypical ideas of poor, youth of color—the public’s perceptions of inherent criminality, fear, and the need for severe pun- ishment—irrespective of the social contexts in which they occurred. No one accounted for Marcel- la’s disrupted childhood—the fact that she dropped out of school in the sixth grade and has spent much of her young life as the primary caretaker for an alcoholic, suicidal mother, who is paralyzed and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

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Book Reviews Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 2015, Vol. 30(2) 270-275 Book Reviews ª The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav aff.sagepub.com Ryder, A. J. (2014). Girls and violence: Tracing the roots of criminal behavior. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 209 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-58826-838-9. Reviewed by: Andrea S. Boyles, Lindenwood University-Belleville, Belleville, IL, USA DOI: 10.1177/0886109914549233 Marcella, a 15-year-old Puerto Rican girl, adjudicated and reprimanded to a New York residential youth facility as a violent offender, recalled committing a series of aggressive offenses from burning the hair of a homeless man while on a train to stabbing a boy in the neighborhood. For many, such actions are unconscionable. They defy social norms and expectations for how children should behave, and more specifically, girls. Inversely, Marcella’s actions further stereotypical ideas of poor, youth of color—the public’s perceptions of inherent criminality, fear, and the need for severe pun- ishment—irrespective of the social contexts in which they occurred. No one accounted for Marcel- la’s disrupted childhood—the fact that she dropped out of school in the sixth grade and has spent much of her young life as the primary caretaker for an alcoholic, suicidal mother, who is paralyzed and

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