The criminalization of Black children : race, gender, and delinquency in Chicago's juvenile justice system, 1899-1945 /
"In this book, Tera Agyepong explores the vital role children played in the construction of ideas of criminality in early twentieth century Chicago. For African American children, youthfulness--far from being a marker of purity or innocence--was a factor in subjecting them to particular institu...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
[2018]
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| Loạt: | Justice, power, and politics.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469634012_agyepong |
| Tóm tắt: | "In this book, Tera Agyepong explores the vital role children played in the construction of ideas of criminality in early twentieth century Chicago. For African American children, youthfulness--far from being a marker of purity or innocence--was a factor in subjecting them to particular institutional, social, and economic vulnerabilities at the hands of the juvenile justice system. At a moment when blackness was becoming a marker of criminality, their race overrode the potential protections their status as children could have provided them"-- |
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| Mô tả vật lý: | 1 online resource (xiii, 180 pages) : illustrations |
| Thư mục: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| số ISBN: | 9781469638669 1469638665 9781469638676 1469638673 9781469638652 9781469636443 |