Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968-

Description

1. lv, 292 p.; 22 cm.

Series statement

1. Critical issues in crime and society

Uniform title

1. Critical issues in crime and society.

Subject

1. Juvenile delinquency > United States
2. Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States
3. Juvenile courts > United States

Contents

1. Introduction -- Images of delinquency, 1870-1900 -- The new penology -- Maternal justice -- The child-saving movement in Illinois -- The fate of the juvenile court -- A concluding note -- Postscript 1977 -- The child savers reconsidered / Anthony M. Platt -- The child savers and three cycles of juvenile justice reform in twentieth-century America / William Bush -- Women and kids in the court : feminist history and Anthony Platt's The child savers / Tamara Myers -- The "other" child savers : racial politics of the parental state / Geoff Ward.

Call number

1. JFD 10-1701

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index.

Author

1. Platt, Anthony M.

Title

1. The child savers : the invention of delinquency / Anthony M. Platt ; with an introduction and critical commentaries compiled by Miroslava Chávez-García.

Imprint

1. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.

Edition

1. Expanded 40th anniversary ed.

Series

1. Critical issues in crime and society
2. Critical issues in crime and society.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index.

Added author

1. Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968-

LCCN

1. 2008043709

ISBN

1. 9780813545363 (pbk.)
2. 0813545366 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. JFD 10-1701