Child Savers - The Invention of Delinquency

Informationen zum Autor ANTHONY M. PLATT is a professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author of several books on American history, social policy, and race relations. Klappentext Presents an analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system. Focusing on social reformers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries! this work argues that the 'child savers' movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but! instead! a punitive and intrusive attempt to control the lives of working-class urban adolescents. Inhaltsverzeichnis In Retrospect: Anthony M. Platt's The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency, by Miroslava Chávez-GarcíaThe Child Savers: The Invention of DelinquencyThe Child Savers Reconsidered, by Anthony M. PlattThe Child Savers and Three Cycles of Juvenile Justice Reform in Twentieth-Century America, by William BushWomen and Kids in the Court: Feminist History and Anthony Platt's The Child Savers, by Tamara Myers"The "Other" Child-Savers: Racial Politics of the Parental State," by Geoff Ward

Product details

• Authors: Anthony M Platt, Anthony M. Platt
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2009
• EAN: 9780813545363
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4536-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and S
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories