1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779137303321

Autore

Winner Lauren F

Titolo

A cheerful and comfortable faith [[electronic resource] ] : Anglican religious practice in the elite households of eighteenth-century Virginia / / Lauren F. Winner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-300-16866-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 272 p.) ) : ill

Disciplina

283/.75509033

Soggetti

HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)

Virginia Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

With cold water and silver bowls : becoming an Anglican in eighteenth-century Virginia -- Becoming a "Christian woman" : needlework and girls' religious formation -- People of the book: liturgical culture and the domestic uses of prayer books -- Sarah Foote Stuart's fish sauce: the liturgical year around the table -- To comfort the living : the household choreography of death and mourning -- Epilogue. Lucy Smith Digges's "Little old fashioned oblong black walnut" table : household religious practice in Episcopalian Virginia.

Sommario/riassunto

This enlightening book examines the physical objects found in elite Virginia households of the eighteenth century to discover what they can tell us about their owners' lives and religious practices. Lauren F. Winner looks closely at punch bowls, needlework, mourning jewelry, baptismal gowns, biscuit molds, cookbooks, and many other items, illuminating the ways Anglicanism influenced daily activities and attitudes in colonial Virginia, particularly in the households of the gentry.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778018703321

Autore

DiCataldo Frank C

Titolo

The perversion of youth [[electronic resource] ] : controversies in the assessment and treatment of juvenile sex offenders / / Frank C. DiCataldo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8147-8522-0

1-4416-1564-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Psychology and crime series

Disciplina

364.15/30835

Soggetti

Teenage sex offenders - Psychology

Teenage sex offenders - Rehabilitation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The birth of a moral panic -- The return of the blob : the heterogeneity of juvenile sex offenders -- Test authors in search of a clinical population : risk assessment instruments for juvenile sex offenders -- The adolescent as sexual deviant : the treatment of juvenile sex offenders -- Creating the objects of our concern : normal childhood sexuality and the invention of childhood sexual behavior problems -- Becoming a man : the waiver of the juvenile sex offender to adult court -- Making monsters : the civil commitment of juvenile sex offenders -- Collateral consequences : the invisible punishment of the juvenile sex offender.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past two decades, concern about adolescent sex offenders has grown at an astonishing pace, garnering heated coverage in the media and providing fodder for television shows like Law & Order. Americans’ reaction to such stories has prompted the unquestioned application to adolescents of harsh legal and clinical intervention strategies designed for serious adult offenders, with little attention being paid to the psychological maturity of the offender. Many strategies being used today to deal with juvenile sex offenders—and even to define what criteria to use in defining "juvenile sex offender"—do not have empirical support and, Frank C. DiCataldo cautions, may be doing more harm to children and society than good.The Perversion of Youth



critiques the current system and its methods for treating and categorizing juveniles, and calls for a major reevaluation of how these cases should be managed in the future. Through an analysis of the history of the problem and an empirical review of the literature, including specific cases and their outcomes, DiCataldo demonstrates that current practices are based more on our collective fears and moral passions than on any supportive science or sound policy.