Who Gets a Childhood? Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century Texas

Name: Who Gets a Childhood? Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century Texas
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ISBN: 9780820337197

ISBN-10: 0820337196

ISBN-13: 9780820337197

Edition: 2010

Authors: William S. Bush, Jane Dailey, Bryant Simon

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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 white middle- and upper-class youth, while denying those protections to blacks, Latinos, and poor whites. On the forefront of both progressive and "get tough" reform campaigns, Texas has led national policy shifts in the treatment of delinquent youth to a surprising degree. Changes in the legal system have included the development of courts devoted exclusively to young offenders, the expanded…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 9/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction. Race, Childhood, and Juvenile Justice History



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


Epilogue. The New American Dilemma


Notes