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Title: States of delinquency race and science in the making of California's juvenile justice system / Miroslava Chavez-Garcia.
American crossroads
American crossroads.
Main Entry: Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968-
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Publication Date: c2012.
Publication Place: Berkeley :
ISBN: 9780520271715 (cloth alk. paper)
9780520271722 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780520951556 (e-book)
Subject: Juvenile justice, Administration of -- California -- History.
Minority youth -- California -- History.
Juvenile delinquents -- California -- History.
Crime and race -- California -- History.
Eugenics -- California -- History.
Electronic books.
Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.)
Preston School of Industry (Ione, Calif.)
Series: American crossroads
American crossroads.
Contents: 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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