PUBLIC LECTURE: Girls' Violence: Myths and Realities

Abstract: Are girls and young women becoming more violent or are we just becoming more aware and less tolerant of their rowdy, drunken behaviour? Subjected in the past to questionably benign welfare intervention, are we now more ready to criminalise the 'bad behaviour' of girls and treat them like the delinquent boys they appear to emulate? Co-editor of 'Girls' Violence: Myths and Realities' (SUNY 2004), Professor Anne Worrall argues that the feminisation of violence represents not so much a 'search for equivalence' as a desire on the part of young women to force an official recognition of the routine experience of violence with which they have to contend in their daily lives.

Biographical note: Anne Worrall is a Honorary Research Fellow at the Crime Research Centre, where she teaches courses on women and crime. She is a Professor of Criminology and Head of the School of Criminology, Education, Sociology and Social Work at Keele University, UK, having previously been a probation officer and then a Lecturer in Social Work at Manchester University. She has an extensive publications record, including Gender, Crime and Justice (Open University Press, 1987) co-edited with Pat Carlen, Offending Women (Routledge, 1990), Girls' Violence: Myths and Realities (SUNY Press, 2004) co-edited with Christine Alder from Melbourne University and Punishment in the Community (Willan, 2005), co-authored with Clare Hoy. She is a member of the Parole Board of England and Wales.

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