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Seeking to better understand the processes that push teenage girls to acts of criminal violence, Judith Ryder explores the relationship between childhood victimization and adolescent delinquency. Ryder draws on intimate interviews to show how teenage girls navigate experiences of physical abuse, emotional loss, and parental abandonment, revealing how their violent acts become a means of connecting with others—however maladaptive and misplaced those connections may be. Her work suggests viable strategies for early interventions to keep at-risk young women out of the criminal justice system.

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Beautifully articulated.... A truly inspirational and informative text. Ryder offers the reader a unique opportunity to hear the stories of girls who are entrenched in the deep end of the juvenile justice system. These voices ... offer a passionate reading experience about why girls engage in violence. A path-breaking, nuanced qualitative study on girls and violence. Ryder has made a major contribution to the field by articulating a developmental trajectory that could explain what transforms little girls into impulsive and violent young women. Highly recommended.

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Judith A. Ryder is associate professor of sociology at St. John's University.

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