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Author Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968-

Title States of delinquency : race and science in the making of California's juvenile justice system / Miroslava Chavez-Garcia.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series American crossroads
American crossroads.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Building Juvenile Justice Institutions in California; 2. Fred C. Nelles: Innovative Reformer, Conservative Eugenicist; 3. Mildred S. Covert: Eugenics Fieldworker, Racial Pathologist; 4. Cristobal, Fred, Tony, and Albert M.: Specimens in Scientific Research and Race Betterment; 5. Otto H. Close: Promising Leader, Complacent Bureaucrat; 6. The Legacy of Benny Moreno and Edward Leiva: "Defective Delinquents" or Tragic Heroes?; Epilogue: Recovering Youths' Voices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary This unique analysis of the rise of the juvenile justice system from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries uses one of the harshest states--California--as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color. Using rich new untapped archives, States of Delinquency is the first book to explore the experiences of young Mexican Americans, African Americans, and ethnic Euro-Americans in California correctional facilities including Whittier State School for Boys and the Preston School of Industry. Miroslava Chávez-García examines the ideologies and practices used b.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.)
Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.)
Preston School of Industry (Ione, Calif.)
Preston School of Industry (Ione, Calif.)
Juvenile justice, Administration of -- California -- History.
Juvenile justice, Administration of.
California.
History.
Minority youth -- California -- History.
Minority youth.
Juvenile delinquents -- California -- History.
Juvenile delinquents.
Crime and race -- California -- History.
Crime and race.
Eugenics -- California -- History.
Eugenics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History.
History.
Electronic books -- History.
Other Form: Print version: Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968- States of delinquency. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520271715 (DLC) 2011033524 (OCoLC)747331902
ISBN 9780520951556 (electronic book)
0520951557 (electronic book)
0520271718 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520271715 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520271726
9780520271722
9780520271715 (cloth alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786613520678