Criminal children
Watkins, Emma2018
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Total copies: 4
Researching Juvenile Offenders 18201920. How were criminal children dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Over this hundred-year period, ideas about the way children should behave - and how they should be corrected when they misbehaved - changed dramatically, and Emma Watkins and Barry Godfrey, in this accessible and expert guide, provide a fascinating introduction to this neglected subject. They describe a time in which `juvenile delinquency' was `invented', when the problem of youth crime and youth gangs developed, and society began to think about how to stop criminal children from developing into criminal adults. Through a selection of short biographies of child criminals, they give readers a direct view of the experience of children who spent time in prisons, reformatory schools, industrial schools and borstals, and those who were transported to Australia. They also include a section showing how researchers can carry out their own research on child offenders, the records they will need and how to use them, so the book is a rare combination of academic guide and how-to-do-it manual. It offers readers cutting-edge scholarship by experts in the field and explains how they can explore the subject and find out about the lives of offending children.
Main title:
Criminal children / Emma Watkins, Barry Godfrey.
Author:
Watkins, Emma, authorGodfrey, Barry, author
Work:
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Family History, 2018.
Collation:
176 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781526738080 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.3609364.3609 WAT
LC class:
HV9069
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
330300