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Who Gets a Childhood?: Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century Texas (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South)
William S. Bush
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Hardcover. Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile justice system over the past century, William S. Bush tells the story of three cycles of scandal, reform, and retrenchment, each of which played out in ways that tended to extend the privileges of a protected childhood to white middle- and upper-class youth. Series: Politics and Culture in the Twentieth Century South. Num Pages: 276 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JM; JPRB; LNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile justice system over the past century, William S. Bush tells the story of three cycles of scandal, reform, and retrenchment, each of which played out in ways that tended to extend the privileges of a protected childhood to white middle- and upper-class youth, while denying those protections to blacks, Latinos, and poor whites.
On the forefront of both progressive and “get tough” reform campaigns, Texas has led national policy shifts in the treatment of delinquent youth to a surprising degree. Changes in the legal system have ... Read more
Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile justice system over the past century, William S. Bush tells the story of three cycles of scandal, reform, and retrenchment, each of which played out in ways that tended to extend the privileges of a protected childhood to white middle- and upper-class youth, while denying those protections to blacks, Latinos, and poor whites.
On the forefront of both progressive and “get tough” reform campaigns, Texas has led national policy shifts in the treatment of delinquent youth to a surprising degree. Changes in the legal system have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820329833
SKU
V9780820329833
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About William S. Bush
William S. Bush is assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University–San Antonio.
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