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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
[2018]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Justice, power, and politics.
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469634012_agyepong |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Contingent childhood: black children and the making of juvenile justice
- Race-ing innocence: the emergence of juvenile justice and the making of black delinquency
- Boundaries of innocence: race, the emergence of Cook County juvenile court, and punitive transitions
- Constructing a black female delinquent: race, gender, and the criminalization of African American girls at the Illinois Training School for Girls at Geneva
- Flight, fright, and freedom: delinquency and the construction of black masculinity at the Training School for Boys at St. Charles.