TY - GEN T1 - The criminalization of Black children : race, gender, and delinquency in Chicago's juvenile justice system, 1899-1945 T2 - Justice, power, and politics. A1 - Agyepong, Tera Eva LA - English PP - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1028937546 AB - "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"-- OP - 180 CN - HV9105.I3 A79 2018eb SN - 9781469638669 SN - 1469638665 SN - 9781469638676 SN - 1469638673 SN - 9781469638652 SN - 9781469636443 KW - African American juvenile delinquents : Illinois. KW - African Americans : Illinois : Social conditions : 20th century. KW - Juvenile justice, Administration of : Illinois : Chicago. KW - Jeunes délinquants noirs américains : Illinois. KW - Noirs américains : Illinois : Conditions sociales : 20e siècle. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Criminology. KW - LAW : Criminal Law : Juvenile Offenders. KW - African American juvenile delinquents KW - African Americans : Social conditions KW - Juvenile justice, Administration of KW - Illinois KW - Illinois : Chicago KW - 1900-1999 ER -