The criminalization of black children: race, gender, and delinquency in Chicago's juvenile justice system, 1899-1945
"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 institu...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press
[2018]
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
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| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 9 E 3001 |
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| Summary: | "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"-- 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 |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 180 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781469636443 9781469638652 |