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The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice

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During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and mirroring the unequal racial politics of American democracy itself. Alongside this liberal "manufactory of citizens," a parallel structure was enacted: a Jim Crow juvenile justice system that endured across the nation for most of the twentieth century. In The Black Child Savers , the first study of the rise and fall of Jim Crow juvenile justice, Geoff Ward examines the ...

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The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice 2012, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226873183

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The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice 2012, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226873169

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