FIGHTING FOR GIRLS -- FIGHTING FOR GIRLS -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: REAL TRENDS IN FEMALE VIOLENCE: GETTING TOUGH ON GIRLS -- ONE: HAVE "GIRLS GONE WILD"? -- TWO: CRIMINALIZING ASSAULT Do Age and Gender Matter? -- THREE: JAILING "BAD" GIRLS Girls' Violence and Trends in Female Incarceration -- PART II: GIRLS' VIOLENCE: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS AND CONCERNS -- FOUR: THE GENDERING OF VIOLENCE IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: How Violence Makes Sex Less Safe for Girls -- FIVE: POLICING GIRLHOOD?: Relational Aggression and Violence Prevention -- SIX: "I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CONSIDER THAT AS VIOLENCE . . .": Using Attachment Theory to Understand Girls' Perspectives on Violence -- SEVEN: REDUCING AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIORIN ADOLESCENT GIRLS BY ATTENDING TO SCHOOL CLIMATE -- EIGHT: NEGOTIATIONS OF THE LIVING SPACE: Life in the Group Home for Girls Who Use Violence -- PART III: GIRLS' VIOLENCE: EXPLANATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- NINE: "IT'S ABOUT BEING A SURVIVOR . . .": African American Girls, Gender, and the Context of Inner-City Violence -- TEN: THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT IN THE PRODUCTION OF OLDER GIRLS' VIOLENCE: Implications for the Focus of Interventions -- EPILOGUE: MORAL PANICS,VIOLENCE,AND THE POLICING OF GIRLS Reasserting Patriarchal Control in the New Millennium -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.