Youth Squad : Policing Children in the Twentieth Century
Saved in:
| Title: | Youth Squad : Policing Children in the Twentieth Century |
|---|---|
| Description: | Starting in the 1930s, urban police forces from New York City to Montreal to Vancouver established youth squads and crime prevention programs, dramatically changing the nature of contact between cops and kids. Gone was the beat officer who scared children and threatened youth. Instead, a new breed of officer emerged whose intentions were explicit: befriend the rising generation. Good intentions, however, produced paradoxical results. In Youth Squad Tamara Gene Myers chronicles the development of youth consciousness among North American police departments. Myers shows that a new comprehensive strategy for crime prevention was predicated on the idea that criminals are not born but made by their cultural environments. Pinpointing the origin of this paradigmatic shift to a period of optimism about the ability of police to protect children, she explains how, by the middle of the twentieth century, police forces had intensified their presence in children's lives through juvenile curfew laws, police athletic leagues, traffic safety and anti-corruption campaigns, and school programs. The book describes the ways that seemingly altruistic efforts to integrate working-class youth into society evolved into pervasive supervision and surveillance, normalizing the police presence in children's lives. At the intersection of juvenile justice, policing, and childhood history, Youth Squad reveals how the overpolicing of young people today is rooted in well-meaning but misguided schemes of the mid-twentieth century. |
| Authors: | Tamara Gene Myers |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Police services for juveniles--History--20th century, Police-community relations--History--20th century |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, HISTORY / North America, HISTORY / Social History |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| FullText | Links: – Type: ebook-pdf – Type: ebook-epub Text: Availability: 0 |
|---|---|
| Header | DbId: nlebk DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) An: 2255706 RelevancyScore: 1090 AccessLevel: 6 PubType: eBook PubTypeId: ebook PreciseRelevancyScore: 1090.09973144531 |
| IllustrationInfo | |
| ImageInfo | – Size: thumb Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$2255706$PDF&s=r – Size: medium Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$2255706$PDF&s=d |
| Items | – Name: Title Label: Title Group: Ti Data: Youth Squad : Policing Children in the Twentieth Century – Name: Abstract Label: Description Group: Ab Data: Starting in the 1930s, urban police forces from New York City to Montreal to Vancouver established youth squads and crime prevention programs, dramatically changing the nature of contact between cops and kids. Gone was the beat officer who scared children and threatened youth. Instead, a new breed of officer emerged whose intentions were explicit: befriend the rising generation. Good intentions, however, produced paradoxical results. In Youth Squad Tamara Gene Myers chronicles the development of youth consciousness among North American police departments. Myers shows that a new comprehensive strategy for crime prevention was predicated on the idea that criminals are not born but made by their cultural environments. Pinpointing the origin of this paradigmatic shift to a period of optimism about the ability of police to protect children, she explains how, by the middle of the twentieth century, police forces had intensified their presence in children's lives through juvenile curfew laws, police athletic leagues, traffic safety and anti-corruption campaigns, and school programs. The book describes the ways that seemingly altruistic efforts to integrate working-class youth into society evolved into pervasive supervision and surveillance, normalizing the police presence in children's lives. At the intersection of juvenile justice, policing, and childhood history, Youth Squad reveals how the overpolicing of young people today is rooted in well-meaning but misguided schemes of the mid-twentieth century. – Name: Author Label: Authors Group: Au Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Tamara+Gene+Myers%22">Tamara Gene Myers</searchLink> – Name: TypePub Label: Resource Type Group: TypPub Data: eBook. – Name: Subject Label: Subjects Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Police+services+for+juveniles--History--20th+century%22">Police services for juveniles--History--20th century</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Police-community+relations--History--20th+century%22">Police-community relations--History--20th century</searchLink> – Name: SubjectBISAC Label: Categories Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22SOCIAL+SCIENCE+%2F+Criminology%22">SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22HISTORY+%2F+North+America%22">HISTORY / North America</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22HISTORY+%2F+Social+History%22">HISTORY / Social History</searchLink> |
| PLink | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=2255706 |
| RecordInfo | BibRecord: BibEntity: Classifications: – Code: 363.20830904 Scheme: ddc Type: prePub Languages: – Code: eng Text: English Subjects: – SubjectFull: Police services for juveniles--History--20th century Type: general – SubjectFull: Police-community relations--History--20th century Type: general Titles: – TitleFull: Youth Squad : Policing Children in the Twentieth Century Type: main BibRelationships: HasContributorRelationships: – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Tamara Gene Myers – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Tamara Gene Myers IsPartOfRelationships: – BibEntity: Dates: – D: 01 M: 01 Type: published Y: 2019 – D: 24 M: 10 Type: profile Y: 2019 Identifiers: – Type: isbn-print Value: 9780773558922 – Type: isbn-print Value: 9780773558939 – Type: isbn-electronic Value: 9780228000310 – Type: isbn-electronic Value: 9780228000327 Titles: – TitleFull: Youth Squad : Policing Children in the Twentieth Century Type: main |
| ResultId | 1 |
