The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency

by Anthony M. Platt

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Platt, Anthony M. The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969 . ix, 230 pp. Softcover. Very good. Author's inscription to front endpaper, For Gil Geiss/ In Solidarity/ Tony Platt/ 3/3/76. Internally clean. 20. * A foundational and highly influential sociological study that critiques the turn-of-the-century juvenile court movement. Platt argues that the child-saving reformers actually created a new category of

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