The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency

by Anthony M. Platt

Book Overview

Anthony Platt's study, a chronicle of the child-saving movement and the juvenile court, explodes myth after myth about the benign character of both. The movement is described not as an effort to liberate and dignify youth but as a punitive, romantic, and intrusive effort to control the lives of lower-class urban adolescents and to maintain their dependent status. In so doing Platt analyzes early views of criminal behavior, the origins of the reformatory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226670724
• ISBN13: 9780226670720
• Release Date: June 1977
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"