States of delinquency [electronic resource] : race and science in the making of California's juvenile justice system / Miroslava Chavez-Garcia.
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TextSeries: American crossroadsPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.Description: xiv, 290 pSubject(s): - Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.)
- Preston School of Industry (Ione, Calif.)
- Juvenile justice, Administration of -- California -- History
- Minority youth -- California -- History
- Juvenile delinquents -- California -- History
- Crime and race -- California -- History
- Eugenics -- California -- History
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- HV9105.C2 C43 2012eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Building juvenile justice institutions in California -- Fred C. Nelles : innovative reformer, conservative eugenicist -- Mildred S. Covert : eugenics field worker, racial pathologist -- Cristobal, Fred, Tony, and Albert M. : specimens in scientific research and race betterment -- Otto H. Close : promising leader, complacent bureaucrat -- The legacy of Benny Moreno and Edward Leiva : "defective delinquents" or -- Tragic heroes? -- Epilogue: recovering youths' voices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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