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In the Web of Class : Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s / Eric C. Schneider.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The American Social Experience ; 10Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780814779330
  • 9780814739556
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.3/6/0974461 20
LOC classification:
  • HV9306.B7 S36 1991eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: The Web of Class -- Part I. The Creation of Private and Public Charity -- Introduction -- 1. Moral Entrepreneurs and the Invention of the Reformable Child -- 2. Public Welfare and the Public Reformatory -- Part 2. Domestic Reform -- Introduction -- 3. Private Alternatives to the Asylum -- 4. Domestic Reform and the Delinquent Girl -- 5. Domestic Reform and the State Reform School for Boys -- Part 3. The Organization of Welfare -- Introduction -- 6. Catholic Welfare: Between Separatism and Accommodation -- 7. The Charity Network -- Part 4. Expertise and Scientific Reform -- Introduction -- 8. The Juvenile Court: Triumph of Progressivism -- 9. Child Guidance and the Court -- Conclusion: The Failure of Cultural Reform -- Notes -- Index
Summary: "An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston.[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency."-Choice"Anyone who wants to understand why America's approach to juvenile justice doesn't work should read In the Web of Class."-Michael B. Katz,University of Pennsylvania
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: The Web of Class -- Part I. The Creation of Private and Public Charity -- Introduction -- 1. Moral Entrepreneurs and the Invention of the Reformable Child -- 2. Public Welfare and the Public Reformatory -- Part 2. Domestic Reform -- Introduction -- 3. Private Alternatives to the Asylum -- 4. Domestic Reform and the Delinquent Girl -- 5. Domestic Reform and the State Reform School for Boys -- Part 3. The Organization of Welfare -- Introduction -- 6. Catholic Welfare: Between Separatism and Accommodation -- 7. The Charity Network -- Part 4. Expertise and Scientific Reform -- Introduction -- 8. The Juvenile Court: Triumph of Progressivism -- 9. Child Guidance and the Court -- Conclusion: The Failure of Cultural Reform -- Notes -- Index

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"An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston.[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency."-Choice"Anyone who wants to understand why America's approach to juvenile justice doesn't work should read In the Web of Class."-Michael B. Katz,University of Pennsylvania

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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