Qualitative Criminology (QC)
Abstract
"Drawing on biographical details, people’s experiences, and historical documents, Geoff K. Ward examines Black child savers’ efforts and struggles to transform a Jim Crow juvenile justice system into a racially democratic model of juvenile justice. In his first book: The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy & Juvenile Justice, Ward describes Black child-savers as concerned Black Americans and their allies who sought racial reform in the juvenile justice system and who intervened on the behalf of Black dependent and delinquent youth. Ward also discusses “the sociocultural origins and organization of Jim Crow juvenile justice as well as the social movement by generations of Black Americans to replace the White supremacist parental state with an idealized racial structure of democratic social control” (pg. 5)."
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Recommended Citation
Jackson, Robin D.
(2013)
"Geoff K. Ward, The Black Child-Savers: Racial
Democracy & Juvenile Justice,"
Qualitative Criminology (QC): Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://dc.swosu.edu/qc/vol1/iss1/10
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