| Series |
Justice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics. ^A1147248
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| Contents |
Contingent childhood: black children and the making of juvenile justice -- Race-ing innocence: the emergence of juvenile justice and the making of black delinquency -- Boundaries of innocence: race, the emergence of Cook County juvenile court, and punitive transitions -- Constructing a black female delinquent: race, gender, and the criminalization of African American girls at the Illinois Training School for Girls at Geneva -- Flight, fright, and freedom: delinquency and the construction of black masculinity at the Training School for Boys at St. Charles. |
| Abstract |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2017033417 |
| ISBN | 9781469638652 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469638657 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781469636443 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469636441 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
