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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813556203321

Autore

Chavez-Garcia Miroslava

Titolo

States of Delinquency : Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System / / Miroslava Chavez-Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-280-11109-7

9786613520678

0-520-95155-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

American Crossroads ; ; 35

Disciplina

364.3609794

Soggetti

Crime and race - California - History

Crime and race -- California -- History

Eugenics - California - History

Eugenics -- California -- History

Juvenile delinquents - California - History

Juvenile delinquents -- California -- History

Juvenile justice, Administration of - California - History

Minority youth - California - History

Minority youth -- California -- History

Preston School of Industry (Ione, Calif.)

Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.)

Juvenile justice, Administration of - History - California

Minority youth - History - California

Juvenile delinquents - History - California

Crime and race - History - California

Eugenics - History - California

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency

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 and index.



Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Building Juvenile Justice Institutions in California -- 2. Fred C. Nelles: Innovative Reformer, Conservative Eugenicist -- 3. Mildred S. Covert: Eugenics Fieldworker, Racial Pathologist -- 4. Cristobal, Fred, Tony, and Albert M.: Specimens in Scientific Research and Race Betterment -- 5. Otto H. Close: Promising Leader, Complacent Bureaucrat -- 6. The Legacy of Benny Moreno and Edward Leiva: "Defective Delinquents" or Tragic Heroes? -- Epilogue: Recovering Youths' Voices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This unique 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 rich new untapped archives, States of Delinquency is the first book to explore 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. Miroslava Chávez-García 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.