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Author Salerno, Roger A., author.

Title Boyhood and delinquency in 1920s Chicago : a sociological study of juvenile jack-rollers and gender / Roger A. Salerno.

Publication Info. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: boyhood and the criminological imagination -- Jack-roller stories -- Decoding the "jack-roller" -- Shaw's other boys -- Exclusions of convenience -- Inclusions of convenience -- Introduction to the institute for juvenile research oral histories -- Conclusion: delinquency and the end of boyhood.
Summary "This study of delinquency in 1920s Chicago examines the lives of boys, many of whom spent their early years incarcerated, who survived by embracing criminal personas. Predatory masculinity emerges as a source of personal struggle, and as the basis for an array of contemporary social problems, including mass violence and suicide"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Juvenile delinquents -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Juvenile delinquents.
Illinois -- Chicago.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Juvenile delinquency -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Juvenile delinquency.
Juvenile corrections -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
History.
Street children -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Street children.
Boys -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Boys.
Juvenile corrections.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Boys -- Social conditions.
Juvenile delinquents -- Social conditions.
Street children -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Boys.
Other Form: Print version: Salerno, Roger A. Boyhood and delinquency in 1920s Chicago. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017] 9781476663418 (DLC) 2016051904 (OCoLC)969973255
ISBN 9781476627175 (electronic book)
1476627177 (electronic book)
9781476663418
1476663416

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