RT Book
T1 Boyhood and delinquency in 1920s Chicago: a sociological study of juvenile Jack-Rollers and gender
A1 Salerno, Roger A. 1946-
LA English
PP Jefferson, North Carolina
PB McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1635896924
AB "This study of delinquency in 1920s Chicago examines the lives of boys, many of whom spent their early years incarcerated, who survived by embracing criminal personas. Predatory masculinity emerges as a source of personal struggle, and as the basis for an array of contemporary social problems, including mass violence and suicide"--
AB Introduction: boyhood and the criminological imagination -- Jack-roller stories -- Decoding the "jack-roller" -- Shaw's other boys -- Exclusions of convenience -- Inclusions of convenience -- Introduction to the Institute for Juvenile Research Oral Histories -- Conclusion: delinquency and the end of boyhood
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV9106.C4
SN 9781476663418
K1 Juvenile delinquents : Social conditions : 20th century : Illinois : Chicago
K1 Juvenile Delinquency : History : 20th century : Illinois : Chicago
K1 Juvenile corrections : History : 20th century : Illinois : Chicago
K1 Street children : Social conditions : 20th century : Illinois : Chicago
K1 Boys : Social conditions : 20th century : Illinois : Chicago
K1 Chicago, Ill. : Jugendlicher Täter : Jugendstrafvollzug : Geschichte 1920-1929