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States of delinquency race and science in the making of California's juvenile justice system
Title
States of delinquency [electronic resource] : race and science in the making of California's juvenile justice system / Miroslava Chavez-Garcia.
ISBN
9780520951556
0520951557
9780520271715 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520271722 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 290 p. :) ill. ;
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Archive Complete Supplement V.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Series
American crossroads ; 35
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-273) and index.
Contents
Building juvenile justice institutions in California
Fred C. Nelles : innovative reformer, conservative eugenicist
Mildred S. Covert : eugenics field worker, racial pathologist
Cristobal, Fred, Tony, and Albert M. : specimens in scientific research and race betterment
Otto H. Close : promising leader, complacent bureaucrat
The legacy of Benny Moreno and Edward Leiva : "defective delinquents" or
Tragic heroes?
Epilogue: recovering youths' voices
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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