Child Savers: Invention of Delinquency - Hardcover

Platt, Anthony M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226670708 ISBN 13: 9780226670706

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1969

Synopsis

Hailed as a definitive analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system, this 40th anniversary edition of ""The Child Savers"" features a new essay by Anthony M. Platt that highlights recent directions in the field, as well as a critique of his original text. Focusing on social reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Platt's principal argument is that the 'child savers' movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but, instead, a punitive and intrusive attempt to control the lives of working-class urban adolescents. This expanded edition provides a renewed and distinguished contribution by placing it in historical context through insightful commentaries from cross-disciplinary academics, along with an essay by Miroslava Chavez-Garcia examining how Platt's influential study has impacted many of the central arguments social scientists and historians face today.

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Review

The Child Savers deeply influenced me and dozens of other feminist scholars who have studied social policy critically. This reissue is remarkable in allowing us to rethink it, and nowhere more valuable than in Tony Platt's own thoughtful reconsideration. - Linda Gordon, professor of history, New York University

About the Author

ANTHONY M. PLATT is a professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author of several books on American history, social policy, and race relations.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226670708
• ISBN 13: 9780226670706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272