Child Savers
Subtitle: The Invention of Delinquency
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: August 1980
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780226670737
Subjects: Criminology; Sociology
First sentence: Contemporary programs of delinquency control can be traced to the enterprising reforms of the child savers who, at the end of the nineteenth century, helped to create special judicial and correctional institutions for the labeling, processing, and management of "troublesome" youth.