Black Child-Savers - Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice

Informationen zum Autor Geoff K. Ward is assistant professor in the Department of Criminology! Law! and Society at the University of California! Irvine. Klappentext During the Progressive Era! a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice. Alongside this liberal "manufactory of citizens!" a parallel structure was enacted: a Jim Crow juvenile justice system that endured across the nation for most of the twentieth century. This title studies the rise and fall of Jim Crow juvenile justice. "In "The Black Child Savers", Professor Ward tells a compelling, eye-opening story that has never been told before: the history of how our country has treated black children accused of crime, how the juvenile justice system evolved without black children in mind, and how the vestiges of this history persist in the form of the rampant disproportionate minority contact in the juvenile justice system today. "The Black Child Savers" is a comprehensive, meticulously researched and eloquently written resource for scholars, teachers, community organizers, families of system-involved youth, attorneys, probation officers, judges, and anyone else who cares about racism in the juvenile justice system and how it came to be so entrenched. It is a major contribution on a missing chapter in juvenile justice."--Robin Walker Sterling "University of Denver " Zusammenfassung During the Progressive Era! a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice. Alongside this liberal "manufactory of citizens!" a parallel structure was enacted: a Jim Crow juvenile justice system that endured across the nation for most of the twentieth century. This title studies the rise and fall of Jim Crow juvenile justice.

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Ward, Geoff K. Ward, WARD GEOFF K, Ward Geoff K.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2012
• EAN: 9780226873183
• ISBN: 978-0-226-87318-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, Ethnic Studies, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, LAW / Criminal Law / Juvenile Offenders, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Juvenile Criminal Law