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Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981 (Medicine and Society)
Stubborn Children Controlling Delinquency in the United States 16401981 - Medicine and Society Author:John R. Sutton John Sutton provides a fascinating account of the changing patterns of reform aimed at the control of children in the United States. He focuses on a series of watershed reforms--from colonial Puritan strategies of child control to the nineteenth-century refuge and reformatory movements, to the juvenile court and the recent movement for deinstitu... more »tionalization.« less