Normal bad boys : public policies, institutions and the politics of client recruitment / Prue Rains and Eli Teram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rains, Prue.

Contributor:

Teram, Eli, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile corrections--Quebec (Province).

Juvenile corrections.

Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--Quebec (Province).

Juvenile delinquents.

Juvenile justice, Administration of--Quebec (Province).

Juvenile justice, Administration of.

Shawbridge Youth Centres (Montreal, Quebec).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rains and Teram trace the history, impact, and subversion of public policies affecting the disposition of delinquent, neglected, and emotionally disturbed anglophone youth in Montreal. They examine these policies through study of the more than eighty-year history of The Boys' Farm, now known as Shawbridge Youth Centres, and the strategies it used to control admissions in the face of changing relations with other organizations in Montreal's delinquency, child welfare, and mental health networks. The authors describe the surprisingly direct efforts to increase the supply of reformable "normal bad boys" at the turn of the century; the beginnings, around mid-century, of the "differential treatment" ideology that eventually legitimized institutional control over admissions; and the more recent child-welfare environment that emphasised professional self-regulation and organizational autonomy. The final section of the book is a contemporary case study of Montreal's anglophone youth protection network in the wake of the implementation in 1979 of the Quebec Youth Protection Act.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Social Policies and Institutions for Problem Youth

Juvenile Justice and The Boys' Farm

Introduction

Origins and Management of the 1921-1927 Population Crisis

Last-Resort Disposition of Older Delinquents, 1942-1966

Youth Protection and The Boys' Farm

Last-Resort Disposition of Protection Cases, 1950-1966

Threat of Provincial Intervention

A Mandated Youth-in-Trouble Network

Centralized Dispositionof Clients

Decentralized Disposition of Clients

Rights of Institutionalized Youth

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-178) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85592-1

9786612855924

0-7735-6338-5

OCLC:

243568640