The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) - Softcover

Platt, Anthony M.

 
9780813545363: The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813545366 ISBN 13: 9780813545363
Verlag: RUTGERS UNIV PR, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Hailed as a definitive analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system, this 40th anniversary edition of The Child Savers features a new essay by Anthony M. Platt that highlights recent directions in the field, as well as a critique of his original text.

Focusing on social reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Platt's principal argument is that the "child savers" movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but, instead, a punitive and intrusive attempt to control the lives of working-class urban adolescents. This expanded edition provides a renewed and distinguished contribution by placing it in historical context through insightful commentaries from cross-disciplinary academics, along with an essay by Miroslava Chávez-García examining how Platt's influential study has impacted many of the central arguments social scientists and historians face today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ANTHONY M. PLATT is a professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author of several books on American history, social policy, and race relations.

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Hailed as a definitive analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system, this 40th anniversary edition of The Child Savers features a new essay by Anthony M. Platt that highlights recent directions in the field, as well as a critique of his original text. Platt's argues that the "child savers" movement was not altruistic but, instead, a punitive and intrusive attempt to control the lives of working-class urban adolescents. This edition places it in historical context and features an essay by Miroslava Chavez-Garcia examining how Platt's study has impacted many of the central arguments social scientists and historians face today.

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Verlag
RUTGERS UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813545366
ISBN 13 
9780813545363
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Anzahl der Seiten
292
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