Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960

by Michael A. Rembis

Book Overview

Defining Deviance analyzes how reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perceived delinquent girls and their often troubled lives. Drawing on exclusive access to thousands of case files and other documents at the State Training School in Geneva, Illinois, Michael A. Rembis uses Illinois as a case study to show how implementation of involuntary commitment laws in the United States reflected eugenic thinking about juvenile delinquency...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079272
• ISBN13: 9780252079276
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"