Who gets a childhood?
Subtitle: race and juvenile justice in twentieth-century Texas
By: William S. Bush.
Series: Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780820329833
Subjects: Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; Discrimination in juvenile justice administration -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; Juvenile delinquents -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The other lost generation : reform and resistance in the juvenile training schools, 1907-1929; title: Socializing delinquency : child welfare, mental health, and the critique of institutions, 1929-1949; title: Juvenile rehabilitation and the color line : the training school for Black delinquent girls, 1943-1950; title: James Dean and Jim Crow : the failure of reform and the racialization of delinquency in the 1950s; title: "Hard to reach" : the politics of delinquency prevention in postwar Houston; title: Circling the wagons : the struggle over the Texas Youth Council, 1965-1971; title: Creating a right to treatment : Morales v. Turman, 1971-1988.