States of delinquency
Subtitle: youth, race, and science in California's early juvenile justice system, 1850s-1940s
By: Miroslava Chavez-Garcia
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520271715; 9780520271722
Subjects: Preston School of Industry (Ione, Calif.); Administration of Juvenile justice; Juvenile delinquents; Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Crime and race; History; Minority youth; Eugenics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building juvenile justice institutions in California; title: Fred C. Nelles : innovative reformer, conservative eugenicist; title: Mildred S. Covert : eugenics field worker, racial pathologist; title: Cristobal, Fred, Tony, and Albert M. : specimens in scientific research and race betterment; title: Otto H. Close : promising leader, complacent bureaucrat; title: The legacy of Benny Moreno and Edward Leiva : "defective delinquents" or; title: Tragic heroes?; title: Epilogue: recovering youths' voices; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.