Copyright Page Purchased

Jane B. Sprott is associate professor of criminal justice and criminology

at Ryerson University. Anthony N. Doob is professor at the

Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto and coauthor of

Responding to Youth Crime in Canada.

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

© 2009 by The University of Chicago

All rights reserved. Published 2009

Printed in the United States of America

17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09   1 2 3 4 5

isbn-13: 978–0–226–77004–8 (cloth)

isbn-10: 0–226–77004–4 (cloth)

Sprott, Jane B.

     Justice for girls?: stability and change in the youth justice

systems of the United States and Canada / Jane B. Sprott and

Anthony N. Doob; with a foreword by Franklin E. Zimring.

          p. cm.

     Includes bibliographical references and index.

     isbn-13: 978–0–226–77004–8 (cloth: alk. paper)

     isbn-10: 0–226–77004–4 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Female juvenile

delinquents—United States. 2. Juvenile justice, Administration

of—United States. 3. Female juvenile delinquents—Canada.

4. Juvenile justice, Administration of—Canada. I. Doob,

Anthony N. II. Zimring, Franklin E. III. Title.

     hv9104.s676 2009

     364·36082′0973—dc22

2009009306

♾ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements

of the American National Standard for Information

Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,

ansi z39.48-1992.