| Description |
ix, 259 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Issues in law and society |
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Issues in law and society.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Governing Childhood / Anne McGillivray -- I. Law, Labour and the Spectacle of the Body: Protecting Child Street Performers in Nineteenth-Century France / Sylvia Schafer -- II. The Gendering of Social Control: Sex Delinquency and Progressive Juvenile Justice in Denver, 1901-1927 / Paul Colomy and Martin Kretzmann -- III. Achieving the Promise of Justice for Juveniles: A Call for the Abolition of Juvenile Court / Janet Ainsworth -- IV. The James Bulger Tragedy: Childish Innocence and the Construction of Guilt / Michael Freeman -- V. Therapies of Freedom: The Colonization of Aboriginal Childhood / Anne McGillivray -- VI. Domesticating Reason: Children, Families and Good Citizenship / Alice Hearst -- VII. Reconstructing Childhood: Toward a Praxis of Inclusion / Sheila Martineau -- Afterword: Governing Children, Imagining Childhood / Martha Minow |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Children -- Government policy.
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of.
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| Author |
McGillivray, Anne.
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| LC no. |
96032163 |
| ISBN |
185521833X |
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1855218402 |
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