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- Title
SEX, GENDER, AND THE HISTORY OF THE ADOLESCENT BODY: 30 YEARS AFTER "THE CRIME OF PRECOCIOUS SEXUALITY".
- Authors
MYERS, TAMARA
- Abstract
The article discusses the work "The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era," by Steven Schlossman and Stephanie Wallach published in the "Harvard Educational Review" in 1978. The study succeeded in identifying an historical context in which new theories of adolescence, the politics of eugenics, and goals of social purity influenced juvenile justice thinking and resulted in the policing of working-class girls for acts of sexual expression. It is suggested that "Precocious Sexuality" helped expand the body of literature focusing on women's penal institutions, the regulation of female criminal behavior, and the gendered nature of criminal justice.
- Subjects
HISTORY of female juvenile offenders; JUVENILE delinquency -- Sex differences; JUVENILE corrections; SCHLOSSMAN, Steven; JUSTICE administration &; politics; SEXISM; CRIMINAL psychology; WALLACH, Stephanie; SEX customs; LAW
- Publication
Journal of the History of Childhood & Youth, 2009, Vol 2, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
1939-6724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hcy.0.0039