Knupfer Reform and Resistance

Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-69173-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten

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

• 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.