| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 180 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Justice, power, and politics |
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Justice, power, and politics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 7, 2020). |
| Subject |
African American juvenile delinquents -- Illinois.
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African Americans -- Illinois -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- Juvenile Offenders.
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African American juvenile delinquents. (OCoLC)fst00799212
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst00799698
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Juvenile justice, Administration of. (OCoLC)fst00985472
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Illinois. (OCoLC)fst01205143
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Illinois -- Chicago.
(OCoLC)fst01204048
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Agyepong, Tera Eva. Criminalization of black children. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469638652 (DLC) 2017033417 (OCoLC)999400961 |
| ISBN |
9781469638669 (electronic book) |
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1469638665 (electronic book) |
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9781469638676 (electronic book) |
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1469638673 (electronic book) |
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