Anne Meis Knupfer

Reform and Resistance

Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the encounters between the girls and the new arm of the state in Cook County, Illinois, Anne Meis Knupfer illuminates the origin of American notions of gender and delinquency. Combining rigorous research with passionate writing, Reform and Resistance is a good story about bad girls.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780415925976
• ISBN-10: 0415925975
• Artikelnr.: 21638092

Autorenporträt

Anne Meis Knupfer received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and is a professor of Education at Purdue University. She is the author of Toward a TenderedHumanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African-American Women'sClubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Professionalization of Delinquency 1.
Female Delinquency: Social Reform and Sociology 2. Psycho-Medical Models of
Delinquency 3. The Helping Professions: Female Probation and Police
Officers, and African-American Social Workers Part II: Delinquent Girls In
and Out of Juvenile Court 4. Work and Leisure in Delinquent Girls' Lives 5.
The Cook County Juvenile Court and Delinquent Girls 6. The Chicago
Detention Home and Juvenile Psychopathic Institute Part III: Reform
Institutions for Delinquent Girls 7. The Chicago Home for Girls 8. The
State Industrial School for Delinquent Girls in Geneva, Illinois 9. The
House of the Good Shepherd 10. Conclusion Appendix 1: Notes on Primary
Sources Appendix 2:Tables Endnotes Bibliography Index