Book ID: CBB001212544

States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System (2012)

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Chávez-García, Miroslava (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xiv + 290 pp.; ill.
Language: English

This 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 untapped archives, this book explores 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. The author examines the ideologies and practices used by state institutions as they began to replace families and communities in punishing youth, and explores the application of science and pseudo-scientific research in the disproportionate classification of youths of color as degenerate. She also shows how these boys and girls, and their families, resisted increasingly harsh treatment and various kinds of abuse, including sterilization.

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Review Robert T. Chase (2015) Review of "States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System". Journal of American History (pp. 284-285). unapi

Review Jones, Kathleen W. (2013) Review of "States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System". American Historical Review (pp. 524-525). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wailoo, Keith
Saumitra Basu
Mooney, Katherine C.
Varel, David Alan
Muigai, Wangui
Simon, Kristi M.
Concepts
Science and law
Science and race
African Americans and science
African Americans
Police; criminal justice departments
Children
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
California (U.S.)
Southern states (U.S.)
Italy
France
Institutions
Eastman Kodak Company
University of Chicago
American Sociological Association
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