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Book SynopsisPresents an analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system. Focusing on social reformers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this work argues that the 'child savers' movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but, instead, a punitive and intrusive attempt to control the lives of working-class urban adolescents.
Trade Review"
The Child Savers deeply influenced me and dozens of other feminist scholars who have studied social policy critically. This reissue is remarkable in allowing us to rethink it, and nowhere more valuable than in Tony Platt's own thoughtful reconsideration." -- Linda Gordon * professor of history, New York University *
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The Child Savers, at forty, is a classic. Accompanied by lively contributions that reflect on its impact and outline recent research, this new edition will ensure that the book lives on, its message always challenging, its relevance undiminished." -- Hugh Cunningham * Professor Emeritus of Social History, University of Kent *
"The Child Savers is a classic, and the updated edition is even more relevant today; a must for the informed public and the perceptive student." -- Jock Young * Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, City University of New York *
"Like a bracing wind, Platt's brilliant inquiry into the oxymoron of juvenile justice demands again that we upend our ritualized system of punishing, containing and crushing our defiant young." -- Bernardine Dohrn * Northwestern University School of Law *
Table of ContentsIn Retrospect: Anthony M. Platt's The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency, by Miroslava Chávez-García
The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency
The Child Savers Reconsidered, by Anthony M. Platt
The Child Savers and Three Cycles of Juvenile Justice Reform in Twentieth-Century America, by William Bush
Women and Kids in the Court: Feminist History and Anthony Platt's The Child Savers, by Tamara Myers
"The "Other" Child-Savers: Racial Politics of the Parental State," by Geoff Ward
