ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|54 pages
The Professionalization of Delinquency
chapter 3|18 pages
The “Helping” Professions
Female Probation and Police Officers and African-American Social Workers
part 2|54 pages
Delinquent Girls In and Out of the Juvenile Court
part 3|58 pages
Reform Institutions for Delinquent Girls
