In the Web of Class : : Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s / / Eric C. Schneider.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Schneider, Eric C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: The American Social Experience ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

"An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston.[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency."-Choice"Anyone who wants to understand why America's approach to juvenile justice doesn't work should read In the Web of Class."-Michael B. Katz,University of Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: The Web of Class -- Part I. The Creation of Private and Public Charity -- Introduction -- 1. Moral Entrepreneurs and the Invention of the Reformable Child -- 2. Public Welfare and the Public Reformatory -- Part 2. Domestic Reform -- Introduction -- 3. Private Alternatives to the Asylum -- 4. Domestic Reform and the Delinquent Girl -- 5. Domestic Reform and the State Reform School for Boys -- Part 3. The Organization of Welfare -- Introduction -- 6. Catholic Welfare: Between Separatism and Accommodation -- 7. The Charity Network -- Part 4. Expertise and Scientific Reform -- Introduction -- 8. The Juvenile Court: Triumph of Progressivism -- 9. Child Guidance and the Court -- Conclusion: The Failure of Cultural Reform -- Notes -- Index