The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945
(Part of the Justice, Power, and Politics Series)
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In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults. Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted fundamentally different treatment, reformers founded the nation's first juvenile court in Chicago in 1899. Yet amid an influx of new African American arrivals to the city during the Great Migration, notions of inherent childhood innocence and juvenile justice were...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469636441
ISBN13:9781469636443
Release Date:April 2018
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:196 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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