SOC362H5 Final: Final Reading 5
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Why girls fight: female youth violence in the inner city. the annals of the american academy of political and social science 595:32 48. Ness looks at the resort to violence by inner-city female. Connection to belknap youth: including external force impinging on them. Girls actively purse and enjoy physically dominating others, Ness argues that violence by girls in low-incomes areas, particularly street fighting has been significantly underestimated in official stats and by scholars in their research. Mothers found to play an integral role in anatomy of their daughter"s use of violence. The article address the need to situate girls" violent behaviour on the level of individual psychology, the cultural space of neighborhoods, and within institutional frameworks. Based on a year long study of ethnographic fieldwork in. West and northeast philadelphia: how low-income female adolescents experience causing physical harm and the meaning they assign to do so.
