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Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981

Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981

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  • ISBN-13: 9780520060937
  • ISBN: 0520060938
  • Publisher: University of California Press

AUTHOR

Sutton, John R.

SUMMARY

John Sutton provides a fascinating account of the changing patterns of reform aimed at the control of children in the United States. He focuses on a series of watershed reforms--from colonial Puritan strategies of child control to the nineteenth-century refuge and reformatory movements, to the juvenile court and the recent movement for deinstitutionalization.Sutton, John R. is the author of 'Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981' with ISBN 9780520060937 and ISBN 0520060938.

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