Tera Eva Agyepong: 1 book
The Criminalization of Black Children
Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System, 1899–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults. Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted fundamentally different treatment, reformers founded the nation's first juvenile court in Chicago in 1899. Yet...
