TY - JOUR AU1 - Nadolny, Sarah AB - J Youth Adolescence (2013) 42:303–304 DOI 10.1007/s10964-012-9861-9 BOOK REVIEW Miroslava Chavez-Garcia: States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California’s Juvenile Justice System University of California Press, Los Angeles, 2012, 212 pp, ISBN: 978-0-520-27172-2 Sarah M. Nadolny Received: 4 November 2012 / Accepted: 6 November 2012 / Published online: 18 November 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012 Developmentalists seeking to understand the development Mexicans, used the parents and communities as the main of juvenile offending increasingly focus on the effects of race corrective force for dealing with problem behavior. By the in the etiology of offending behavior as well as in the manner 1850s, that corrective force came to a gradual end as it was youth respond to efforts to curtail their behaviors (see Chung replaced by an institutional reform system, when, as the et al. 2011; Lee et al. 2010). Yet, race has long played an author illustrates, ‘‘new Euro-American political, economic, important role in responses to youth, including the devel- social, cultural, and legal framework’’ came into power. opment of the juvenile justice system itself. Some states have With the development of the new reform came state schools, been particularly harsh on minority youth. TI - Miroslava Chavez-Garcia: States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California’s Juvenile Justice System JF - Journal of Youth and Adolescence DO - 10.1007/s10964-012-9861-9 DA - 2012-11-18 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/miroslava-chavez-garcia-states-of-delinquency-race-and-science-in-the-e47LjhvUIB SP - 303 EP - 304 VL - 42 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -