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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Justice, power, and politics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 180 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469638669 1469638665 9781469638676 1469638673 |