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Child Savers: Invention of Delinquency
Child Savers Invention of Delinquency
Author: Anthony M. Platt
Anthony Platt's study, a chronicle of the child-saving movement and the juvenile court, explodes myth after myth about the benign character of both. The movement is described not as an effort to liberate and dignify youth but as a punitive, romantic, and intrusive effort to control the lives of lower-class urban adolescents and to maintain their...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226670706
ISBN-10: 0226670708
Pages: 272
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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