Criminalization of Black Children

In documenting how blackness became a marker of criminality that overrode the potential protections the status of “child” could have bestowed, Tera Eva Agyepong shows the entanglements between race and the state's transition to a more punitive form of juvenile justice. This important study expands the narrative of racialized criminalization in America.

La sfarsitul secolului al XIX-lea, reformatorii progresivi s-au retras in perspectiva ca sistemul de justitie sa pedepseasca copiii ca adulti. Sustinand ca inocenta inerenta a copiilor justifica un tratament fundamental diferit, reformatorii au infiintat prima instanta a minorilor din Chicago in 1899.