The Criminalization of Black Children : Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicagos Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945 / Tera Eva Agyepong.

By:

Agyepong, Tera Eva [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469638669
9781469638676

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV9105 .C756 2018

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Contents:

Race-ing innocence: the emergence of juvenile justice and the making of black delinquency -- Boundaries of innocence: race, the emergence of Cook County juvenile court, and punitive transitions -- Constructing a black female delinquent: race, gender, and the criminalization of African American girls at the Illinois Training School for Girls at Geneva -- Flight, fright, and freedom: delinquency and the construction of black masculinity at the Training School for Boys at St. Charles.

Subject: "In this book, Tera Agyepong explores the vital role children played in the construction of ideas of criminality in early twentieth century Chicago. For African American children, youthfulness--far from being a marker of purity or innocence--was a factor in subjecting them to particular institutional, social, and economic vulnerabilities at the hands of the juvenile justice system. At a moment when blackness was becoming a marker of criminality, their race overrode the potential protections their status as children could have provided them"--

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Contingent childhood: black children and the making of juvenile justice -- Race-ing innocence: the emergence of juvenile justice and the making of black delinquency -- Boundaries of innocence: race, the emergence of Cook County juvenile court, and punitive transitions -- Constructing a black female delinquent: race, gender, and the criminalization of African American girls at the Illinois Training School for Girls at Geneva -- Flight, fright, and freedom: delinquency and the construction of black masculinity at the Training School for Boys at St. Charles.

"In this book, Tera Agyepong explores the vital role children played in the construction of ideas of criminality in early twentieth century Chicago. For African American children, youthfulness--far from being a marker of purity or innocence--was a factor in subjecting them to particular institutional, social, and economic vulnerabilities at the hands of the juvenile justice system. At a moment when blackness was becoming a marker of criminality, their race overrode the potential protections their status as children could have provided them"--

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