Black Child-Savers Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice

Name: Black Child-Savers Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice
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ISBN: 9780226873183

ISBN-10: 0226873188

ISBN-13: 9780226873183

Edition: 2012

Authors: Geoff K. Ward

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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. InThe Black Child Savers, the first study of the rise and fall of Jim Crow juvenile justice, Geoff Ward examines the origins and organization of this separate and unequal juvenile justice system. Ward explores how generations of “black child-savers” mobilized to challenge the threat to black…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Geoff K. Ward is associate professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine.



List of Illustrations


Introduction: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Juvenile Justice



The Origins and Organization of Jim Crow Juvenile Justice



Citizen Delinquent: Race, Liberal Democracy, and the Rehabilitative Ideal



No Refuge under the Law: Racialized Foundations of Juvenile Justice Reform



Birth of a Juvenile Court



The Social Organization of Jim Crow Justice



Rewriting the Racial Contract: The Black Child-Saving Movement



Uplifting Black Citizens Delinquent: The Vanguard Movement, 1900-1930



Institutionalizing Racial Justice: The Black Surrogate Parental State, 1930-65



The Early Spoils of Integration


Conclusion: The Declining Significance of Inclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index