Boyhood and delinquency in 1920s Chicago : a sociological study of juvenile jack-rollers and gender /

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Author / Creator:Salerno, Roger A., author.
Imprint:Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
Description:vii, 197 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11039824
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ISBN:9781476663418
1476663416
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"This study of delinquency in 1920s Chicago examines the lives of boys, many of whom spent their early years incarcerated, who survived by embracing criminal personas. Predatory masculinity emerges as a source of personal struggle, and as the basis for an array of contemporary social problems, including mass violence and suicide"--