The child savers : the invention of delinquency /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Platt, Anthony M.
Edition:	Expanded 40th anniversary ed.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
Description:	lv, 292 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical issues in crime and society
Subject:	Juvenile delinquency -- United States. Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States. Juvenile courts -- United States. Juvenile courts. Juvenile delinquency. Juvenile justice, Administration of. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7735519

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Other authors / contributors:	Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968-
ISBN:	9780813545363 (pbk.) 0813545366 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments for the Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
In Retrospect: Anthony M. Platt's The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency
Introduction to the Second Edition
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Images of Delinquency, 1870-1900
Chapter 3. The New Penology
Chapter 4. Maternal Justice
Chapter 5. The Child-Saving Movement in Illinois
Chapter 6. The Fate of the Juvenile Court
Chapter 7. A Concluding Note
Postscript 1977
The Child Savers Reconsidered
The Child Savers and Three Cycles of Juvenile Justice Reform in Twentieth-Century America
Women and Kids in the Court: Feminist History and Anthony Platt's The Child Savers
The "Other" Child Savers: Racial Politics of the Parental State
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

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