The Criminalization of Black Children : Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945 /

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Agyepong, Tera Eva (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Juvenile justice, Administration of.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African American juvenile delinquents.
LAW > Criminal Law > Juvenile Offenders.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Noirs americains > Illinois > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Jeunes delinquants noirs americains > Illinois.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > Illinois > Chicago.
African Americans > Illinois > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American juvenile delinquents > Illinois.
Illinois > Chicago.
Illinois.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (196 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469638676

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