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The child savers : the invention of delinquency
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The child savers : the invention of delinquency

Author: Anthony M Platt; Miroslava Chávez-García
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
Series: Critical issues in crime and society.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English : Expanded 40th anniversary edView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anthony M Platt; Miroslava Chávez-García
ISBN: 9780813545363 0813545366
OCLC Number: 263146836
Description: lv, 292 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Critical issues in crime and society.
Responsibility: Anthony M. Platt ; with an introduction and critical commentaries compiled by Miroslava Chávez-García.

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