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Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960
Defining Deviance Sex Science and Delinquent Girls 18901960
Author: Michael A. Rembis
 Defining Deviance analyzes how reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perceived delinquent girls and their often troubled lives. Drawing on exclusive access to thousands of case files and other documents at the State Training School in Geneva, Illinois, Michael A. Rembis uses Illinois as a case study to show how implemen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780252036064
ISBN-10: 0252036069
Publication Date: 4/16/2011
Pages: 248
Edition: 1st Edition
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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