Reform and resistance : gender, delinquency, and America's first juvenile court /

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Author / Creator:Knupfer, Anne Meis, 1951-
Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2001.
Description:x, 290 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4506007
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ISBN:0415925975 (hb)
0415925983 (pb)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. The Professionalization of Delinquency
  • 1. Female Delinquency: Social Reform and Sociology
  • 2. Psychomedical Models of Delinquency
  • 3. The "Helping" Professions: Female Probation and Police Officers and African-American Social Workers
  • Pt. 2. Delinquent Girls in and Out of the Juvenile Court
  • 4. Work and Leisure in Delinquent Girls' Lives
  • 5. The Cook County Juvenile Court and Delinquent Girls
  • 6. The Chicago Detention Home and Juvenile Psychopathic Institute
  • Pt. 3. Reform Institutions for Delinquent Girls
  • 7. The Chicago Home for Girls
  • 8. The State Industrial School for Delinquent Girls in Geneva, Illinois
  • 9. The House of the Good Shepherd.