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Who Gets a Childhood? - Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-century Texas (Paperback, New)
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Who Gets a Childhood? - Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-century Texas (Paperback, New)
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Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the
American juvenile justice system over the past century, William S.
Bush tells the story of three cycles of scandal, reform, and
retrenchment, each of which played out in ways that tended to
extend the privileges of a protected childhood to white middle- and
upper-class youth, while denying those protections to blacks,
Latinos, and poor whites. On the forefront of both progressive and
"get tough" reform campaigns, Texas has led national policy shifts
in the treatment of delinquent youth to a surprising degree.
Changes in the legal system have included the development of courts
devoted exclusively to young offenders, the expanded legal
application of psychological expertise, and the rise of the
children's rights movement. At the same time, broader cultural
ideas about adolescence have also changed. Yet Bush demonstrates
that as the notion of the teenager gained currency after World War
II, white, middle-class teen criminals were increasingly depicted
as suffering from curable emotional disorders even as the rate of
incarceration rose sharply for black, Latino, and poor teens. Bush
argues that despite the struggles of reformers, child advocates,
parents, and youths themselves to make juvenile justice live up to
its ideal of offering young people a second chance, the story of
twentieth-century juvenile justice in large part boils down to "the
exclusion of poor and nonwhite youth from modern categories of
childhood and adolescence."
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