Biennial Report

Biennial Report
Author: California. Department of Social Welfare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1927
Genre: Charities
ISBN:

Report for 1924/26 includes also statistical data of the Board of Charities and Corrections for the period July 1, 1922 to June 30, 1924.

States of Delinquency

States of Delinquency
Author: Miroslava Chavez-Garcia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2012-02-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520951557

This unique analysis of the rise of the juvenile justice system from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries uses one of the harshest states—California—as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color. Using rich new untapped archives, States of Delinquency is the first book to explore the experiences of young Mexican Americans, African Americans, and ethnic Euro-Americans in California correctional facilities including Whittier State School for Boys and the Preston School of Industry. Miroslava Chávez-García examines the ideologies and practices used by state institutions as they began to replace families and communities in punishing youth, and explores the application of science and pseudo-scientific research in the disproportionate classification of youths of color as degenerate. She also shows how these boys and girls, and their families, resisted increasingly harsh treatment and various kinds of abuse, including sterilization.