Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court

Abstract

Part I: Professionalization of Delinquency 1. Female Delinquency: Social Reform and Sociology 2. Psycho-Medical Models of Delinquency 3. The Helping Professions: Female Probation and Police Officers, and African-American Social Workers Part II: Delinquent Girls In and Out of Juvenile Court 4. Work and Leisure in Delinquent Girls' Lives 5. The Cook County Juvenile Court and Delinquent Girls 6. The Chicago Detention Home and Juvenile Psychopathic Institute Part III: Reform Institutions for Delinquent Girls 7. The Chicago Home for Girls 8. The State Industrial School for Delinquent Girls in Geneva, Illinois 9. The House of the Good Shepard 10. Conclusion