The child savers : the invention of delinquency / Anthony M. Platt ; with an introduction and critical commentaries compiled by Miroslava Chávez-García.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Platt, Anthony M.

Contributor:

• Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968-

Series:

• Critical issues in crime and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Juvenile delinquency--United States.
• Juvenile delinquency.
• United States.
• Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.
• Juvenile justice, Administration of.
• Juvenile courts--United States.
• Juvenile courts.

Physical Description:

lv, 292 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Expanded 40th anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]

Summary:

• Hailed as a definitive analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system, this 40th anniversary edition of The Child Savers features a new essay by Anthony M. Platt that highlights recent directions in the field, as well as a critique of his original text.
• This expanded edition includes insightful commentaries from cross-disciplinary academics, along with an introductory essay by miroslava Chavez-Garcia critically examining how Platt's influential study has impacted many of the central arguments social scientists and historians face today.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Images of delinquency, 1870-1900
• The new penology
• Maternal justice
• The child-saving movement in Illinois
• The fate of the juvenile court
• A concluding note
• Postscript 1977
• The child savers reconsidered / Anthony M. Platt
• The child savers and three cycles of juvenile justice reform in twentieth-century America / William Bush
• Women and kids in the court : feminist history and Anthony Platt's The child savers / Tamara Myers
• The "other" child savers : racial politics of the parental state / Geoff Ward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780813545363
• 0813545366

OCLC:

263146836