Reform and Resistance

Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-92597-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Examining the encounters between the girls and the new arm of the state in Cook County, Illinois, Anne Meis Knupfer illuminates the origin of American notions of gender and delinquency. Combining rigorous research with passionate writing, Reform and Resistance is a good story about bad girls.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knupfer, Anne Meis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Jugendkriminalität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Professionalization of Delinquency 1. Female Delinquency: Social Reform and Sociology 2. Psycho-Medical Models of Delinquency 3. The Helping Professions: Female Probation and Police Officers, and African-American Social Workers Part II: Delinquent Girls In and Out of Juvenile Court 4. Work and Leisure in Delinquent Girls' Lives 5. The Cook County Juvenile Court and Delinquent Girls 6. The Chicago Detention Home and Juvenile Psychopathic Institute Part III: Reform Institutions for Delinquent Girls 7. The Chicago Home for Girls 8. The State Industrial School for Delinquent Girls in Geneva, Illinois 9. The House of the Good Shepherd 10. Conclusion Appendix 1: Notes on Primary Sources Appendix 2:Tables Endnotes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Meis Knupfer received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and is a professor of Education at Purdue University. She is the author of Toward a Tendered Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African-American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago.