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Gender, Psychology, and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System

Corinne C. Datchi and Julie R. Ancis

Print publication date: 2017

Print ISBN-13: 9781479819850

Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: January 2018

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479819850.001.0001

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Girls in Juvenile Detention Facilities

Girls in Juvenile Detention Facilities

Zones of Abandonment

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(p.151) 6 Girls in Juvenile Detention Facilities
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Gender, Psychology, and Justice
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Kendra R. Brewster

Kathleen M. Cumiskey

Publisher:
NYU Press
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479819850.003.0007

This chapter examines the experiences of incarcerated girls who participated in a service learning course that paired them with college mentors in a juvenile detention facility. The course defined the girls as agents in social contexts of inequality, rather than as poor girls of color, and honored their voices as they discussed the issues that were most important to their lives in the community. It also provided the opportunity to examine the girls’ experiences of detention in light of their life stories, and to understand girls’ involvement with the justice system and incarceration as a form of abandonment by society, institutions, and families. This chapter highlights the paucity of treatment programs specifically designed for incarcerated girls and describes how practitioners can create moments of healing in a system designed to punish and dehumanize.

Keywords:   girls, social abandonment, juvenile detention

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