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BookStates of delinquency : race and science in the making of California's juvenile ...

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  • States of delinquency : race and science in the making of California's juvenile justice system / Miroslava Chavez-Garcia.

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  • Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
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  • xiv, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

ISBN

  • 9780520271715 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520271722 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LC classification

  • HV9105.C2 C43 2012

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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Notes

  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-273) and index.

Series

  • American crossroads ; 35

LCCN

  • 2011033524

Dewey class no.

  • 364.3609794

Geographic area code

  • n-us-ca

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  • Book

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  • FLM2016 049399

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  • Not Charged

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