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Anthony Platt's study, a chronicle of the child-saving movement and the juvenile court, explodes myth after myth about the benign character of both. The movement is described not as an effort to liberate and dignify youth but as a punitive, romantic, and intrusive effort to control the lives of lower-class urban adolescents and to maintain their dependent status. In so doing Platt analyzes early views of criminal behavior, the origins of the reformatory system, the social values of middle-class reformers, and the handling of youthful offenders before and after the creation of separate juvenile jurisdictions.

In this second, enlarged edition of The Child Savers , the author has added a new introduction and postscript in which he critically reflects upon his original analysis, suggests new ways of thinking about the child-saving movement, and summarizes recent developments in the juvenile justice system.

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• Preface
• Introduction to the Second Edition
• 1 Introduction Perspectives on the Origins of Delinquency Re-Viewing Juvenile Justice
• 2 Images of Delinquency, 1870-1900
• The Value of Punishment
• The Natural Criminal Nature Versus Nurture Urban Disenchantment Summary
• 3 The New Penology Reformation of Youth
• The New Education To Cottage and Country Treatment and Restraint
• 4 Maternal Justice A Woman's Place Portrait of a Child Saver: Louise de Koven Bowen Portrait of a Child Saver: Jane Addams
• The Dependency of Youth
• 5 The Child-Saving Movement in Illinois Delinquent Children Dependent Children Children in Jail Children of the State Summary
• 6 The Fate of the Juvenile Court A Friend in Court Rhetoric and Reality Moralism and Constitutionalism In Defense of Youth Summary
• 7 A Concluding Note Postscript 1977
• Appendix: The Criminal Responsibility of Children
• Bibliography
• Index

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Anthony M. Platt is a professor in the School of Social Work at California State University at Sacramento. He is the author of The Politics of Riot Commissions , and coauthor of Policing America and The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove: An Analysis of the U.S. Police .