See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do AboutIt - Hardcover

Garbarino Ph.D., James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200750 ISBN 13: 9781594200755

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The, 2006

Synopsis

Citing a rise in violent behavior among juvenile girls throughout the past decade, a cultural analysis explains how positive social developments, most importantly an increase in female sports, is encouraging girls to express themselves physically but failing to teach them how to manage violent feelings in appropriate ways. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

James Garbarino, Ph.D., holds the Maude C. Clarke Chair in Humanistic Psychlogy at Loyola University Chicago, and from 1985 to 1994 he was president of the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Garbarino has served as consultant or adviser to a wide range of organizations, including the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, the National Institute for Mental Health, the American Medical Association, the National Black Child Development Institute, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the FBI.

From Publishers Weekly:

Garbarino, a respected authority on juvenile violence and aggression (Lost Boys), takes a fascinating look at girls getting physical—from the assertive physicality expressed by healthy girls to criminal violence on the part of troubled ones. He lauds girls' release from the obligation to be "ladylike" in an increasingly egalitarian society, a "new freedom... [that] can boost self-esteem and self-confidence." But at the other end of the spectrum are girls who are more vulnerable to today's increasingly "toxic social environment"—a deleterious entanglement of hypersexuality and materialism—and prone to asocial violence. Garbarino cites U.S. Justice Department statistics that the rate of girls arrested for assault is approaching that of boys. Examining biology, early childhood development and the effects of mass media, he builds on the work of other psychologists and social historians while adding texture to his accessible narrative with first-person accounts of girls' experiences—X-rated name-calling, punching, brawls with baseball bats. Society, he asserts, should allow girls to be "physical and popular in a nonsexual and nonmaterialistic way." What girls need, he concludes in this evenhanded but eye-opening book, is positive identity, a sense of rootedness and spirituality, and benevolent adult involvement in their lives. (On sale Feb. 20)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594200750
• ISBN 13: 9781594200755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304