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Author Knupfer, Anne Meis

Title Reform and Resistance : Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (641 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Overview of the Book Chapters; Part One: The Professionalization of Delinquency; 1. Female Delinquency: Social Reform and Sociology; Female and Male Dominions; Mapping Disorganization and Delinquency: The Chicago School; 2. Psychomedical Models of Delinquency; The Medicalization of Heterosexuality; Nonheterosexual Deviances; 3. The "Helping" Professions: Female Probation and Police Officers and African-American Social Workers; The Chicago Woman's Club and the Juvenile Court
From "Moral" to "Social" Physicians: Professionalizing the Work of Female Probation OfficersProbation Officers and Female Delinquents; The Community Model; African-American Social Workers in Chicago; Part Two: Delinquent Girls In and Out of the Juvenile Court; 4. Work and Leisure in Delinquent Girls' Lives; Working-Girls' Leisure; Working-Girls' Wages; 5. The Cook County Juvenile Court and Delinquent Girls; The Founding of the First Juvenile Court; Mary Bartelme and Chicago's Delinquent Girls; The Chicago Court's Delinquent Girls
6. The Chicago Detention Home and Juvenile Psychopathic InstituteThe Chicago Detention Home; Chicago's Juvenile Psychopathic Institute; Part Three: Reform Institutions for Delinquent Girls; 7. The Chicago Home for Girls; The Chicago Home for Girls' Administration, Finances, and Facilities; Court Involvement and the Chicago Home for Girls; The Home's Reeducation Programs; 8. The State Industrial School for Delinquent Girls in Geneva, Illinois; Diagnosis and Defiance: The Geneva Girls' Transgressions; Pilgrims of Parole: Geneva's Unlikely Candidates; Rebellion and Resistance Revisited
9. The House of the Good ShepherdBuilding a Caring Institution: The House of the Good Shepherd; Reforming Delinquent Girls: The Work of the Sisters and Catholic Women; Conclusion; Appendix One: Notes on Primary Sources; Appendix Two: Tables; Table 1. Number of Probation Officers Assigned to Cook County Juvenile Court, 1904 to 1927; Table 2. Number of Delinquent and Dependent Boys and Girls Brought to Cook County Juvenile Court, 1904 to 1927; Table 3. Percentages of Delinquent and Dependent Boys and Girls Brought to Cook County Juvenile Court, 1904 to 1927
Table 4. Number of Delinquent and Dependent Boys and Girls Placed in Institutions and Associations, 1904 to 1927Table 5. Percentages of Delinquent and Dependent Boys and Girls Placed in Institutions and Associations, 1904 to 1927; Table 6. Number of Delinquent and Dependent Children Placed on Probation, 1904 to 1927; Table 7. Percentages of Delinquent and Dependent Children Placed on Probation, 1904 to 1927; Table 8. Number of Delinquent Girls per Times Brought to Cook County Juvenile Court, 1904 to 1927
Summary Examining the encounters between the girls and the new arm of the state in Cook County, Illinois, Anne Meis Knupfer illuminates the origin of American notions of gender and delinquency. Combining rigorous research with passionate writing, Reform and Resistance is a good story about bad girls
Notes Table 9. Number of Delinquent Girls Brought to Cook County Juvenile Court according to Ethnicity, 1906 to 1927
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Subject Illinois. Juvenile Court (Cook County) -- History
SUBJECT Illinois. Juvenile Court (Cook County) fast
Subject Juvenile courts -- Illinois -- Cook County -- History
Female juvenile delinquents -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Illinois -- Cook County -- History
Juvenile delinquency -- Illinois -- Cook County -- History
Juvenile courts
Juvenile delinquency
Illinois -- Cook County
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ISBN 9781136691737
1136691731