| Description |
1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Juvenile Justice; Part One: The Origins and Organization of Jim Crow Juvenile Justice; One / Citizen Delinquent: Race, Liberal Democracy, and the Rehabilitative Ideal; Two / No Refuge under the Law: Racialized Foundations of Juvenile Justice Reform; Three / Birth of a Juvenile Court; Four / The Social Organization of Jim Crow Justice; Part Two: Rewriting the Racial Contract: The Black Child-Saving Movement; Five / Uplifting Black Citizens Delinquent: The Vanguard Movement, 1900-1930 |
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Six / Institutionalizing Racial Justice: The Black Surrogate Parental State, 1930-65Seven / The Early Spoils of Integration; Conclusion: The Declining Significance of Inclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and mirroring the unequal racial politics of American democracy itself. Alongside this liberal ""manufactory of citizens," a parallel structure was enacted: a Jim Crow juvenile justice system that endured across the nation for most of the twentieth century. In The Black Child Savers, the first study of the rise and fall of Jim Crow juvenile justice, Geoff Ward examines the origins and organization of this sep |
| Analysis |
jim crow, legal system, justice, law enforcement, democracy, race, racism, segregation, juvenile courts, discrimination, youth, delinquency, white savior, rehabilitation, criminalization, discipline, community, civil rights movement, integration, inclusion, frances joseph-gaudet, josephine ruffin, incarceration, labor, chain gang, activism, judges, probation officers, confinement, imprisonment, reform, innocence, nonfiction, history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 11, 2023) |
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States -- History
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Discrimination in juvenile justice administration -- United States -- History
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African American children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History
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Juvenile courts -- United States -- History
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Discrimination in juvenile justice administration
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Juvenile courts
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Juvenile justice, Administration of
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Justice pour mineurs -- Administration -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
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Adolescents noirs américains -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
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Tribunaux pour mineurs -- États-Unis.
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Afro-amerikaner.
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Ungdomsbrottslighet.
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United States
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Förenta staterna.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011035702 |
| ISBN |
0226873196 |
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9780226873190 |
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