The "Girl Problem"
Subtitle: Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900-1930
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: October 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780801485770
Subjects: Juvenile offenders; Social history; Women's studies; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; c 1900 - c 1914; United States - State & Local - General; Female Offenders (Criminology); Juvenile Delinquency; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Women's Studies - General; United States - 20th Century; Women's Studies - History; Criminology
First sentence: Nellie Roberts was sent to the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford Hills in mid-1917, after a Port Jervis magistrate concluded that she was a menace to the community.