Stubborn Children Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981 |
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| Author:
| Sutton, John R. |
| Series title: | Medicine and Society Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-08452-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1993 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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John Sutton provides a fascinating account of the changing patterns of reform aimed at the control of children in the United States. He focuses on a series of watershed reforms--from colonial Puritan strategies of child control to the nineteenth-century refuge and reformatory movements, to the juvenile court and the recent movement for deinstitutionalization.
John Sutton provides a fascinating account of the changing patterns of reform aimed at the control of children in the United States. He focuses on a series of watershed reforms--from colonial Puritan strategies of child control to the nineteenth-century refuge and reformatory movements, to the juvenile court and the recent movement for deinstitutionalization.