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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162814603321

Autore

Salerno Roger A.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Incorporated, Publishers, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-4766-2717-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 pages)

Disciplina

364.360977311/09042

Soggetti

Juvenile delinquents - Illinois - Chicago - Social conditions - 20th century

Juvenile delinquency - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

Juvenile corrections - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

Street children - Illinois - Chicago - Social conditions - 20th century

Boys - Illinois - Chicago - Social conditions - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--