Caught : Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945 /

Caught : Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945 /

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Caught exposes the attempts made by the juvenile justice system of the day to curb modern attitudes and behaviour; at the same time, it reveals the changing patterns of social and family interaction among adolescent girls.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myers, Tamara, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Series:Studies in gender and history
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Quebec (Province) > Montreal > History.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > Quebec (Province) > Montreal > History > 20th century.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > Quebec (Province) > Montreal > History > 19th century.
Female juvenile delinquents > Quebec (Province) > Montreal > History > 20th century.
Female juvenile delinquents > Quebec (Province) > Montreal > History > 19th century.
History.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The foundations and framework of juvenile justice in Montreal
  • Behind convent walls: Quebec juvenile justice in the reform school eera, 1869-1912
  • Les jeunes filles modernes: reformers, French-Canadian nationalists and experts on the problem with adolescent girls
  • "Maternal rule": gender, religion and professionalization in the juvenile court era
  • A girl's place: family, the city and juvenile court
  • "Did you bleed?": the juvenile court, girls' bodies and the sexualization of femiale delinquency
  • Reform, rehabilitation and riots: the training school experiment in Quebec.

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