Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court - Hardcover

Knupfer, Anne Meis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415925975 ISBN 13: 9780415925976

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Meis Knupfer received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and is a professor of Education at Purdue University. She is the author of Toward a Tendered Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African-American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago.

Review:

"The strengths of "Reform and Resistance include an impressive and extensive bibliography as well as detailed footnotes that bring together many relevant theoretical approaches and current debates."
-Michigan Historical Review
"Knupfer . . .provides fascinating and original information on the definitions, causes and cures for female delinquency [with] an impressive range of primary sources. . .A necessary purchase for research collections on criminal justice, social welfare, women's history, or Chicago."
-"Library Journal, October 15, 2001
"Anne Meis Knupfer is part of a new crop of historians who insist on uneasy complexity, revealing children as actors in their own history and making us revisit the vexing present with new eyes."
-Bernardine Dohrn, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University
"Building on provocative and intimate records of the institutional experiences of young women whose lives were touched by the juvenile justice system in Chicago a century ago, "Reform and Resistance is a distinguished contribution to the scholarship on the history of social policy, criminal justice, and the professionalization of urban reform."
-Michael Sedlak, author of "Selling Students Short
"Anne Meis Knupfer has written a rich and meticulously researched study. . . . she recovers the drama, texture, and complexities within the story of gender and juvenile delinquency."
-Karen Tice, author of "Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415925975
• ISBN 13: 9780415925976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306