The criminalization of black children : race, gender, and delinquency in Chicago's juvenile justice system, 1899-1945 /

"In this book, Tera Agyepong explores the vital role children played in the construction of ideas of criminality in early twentieth century Chicago. For African American children, youthfulness--far from being a marker of purity or innocence--was a factor in subjecting them to particular institu...

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