Who gets a childhood? : race and juvenile justice in twentieth-century Texas /
Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile Justice system over the past century, William S. Bush tells the story of three cycles of scandal, reform, and retrenchment, each of which played out in ways that tended to extend the privileges of a protected childhood to...
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Athens, Ga. :
University of Georgia Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
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Table of Contents:
- The other lost generation : reform and resistance in the juvenile training schools, 1907-1929
- Socializing delinquency : child welfare, mental health, and the critique of institutions, 1929-1949
- Juvenile rehabilitation and the color line : the training school for Black delinquent girls, 1943-1950
- James Dean and Jim Crow : the failure of reform and the racialization of delinquency in the 1950s
- "Hard to reach" : the politics of delinquency prevention in postwar Houston
- Circling the wagons : the struggle over the Texas Youth Council, 1965-1971
- Creating a right to treatment : Morales v. Turman, 1971-1988.
