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Wayward Girls and Virtuous Women: Social Workers and Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era

School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, 120 Haviland Hall, No. 7400, Berkeley, CA 94720labrams{at}uclink4.berkeley.edu

Laura Curran

School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeleylacurran{at}uclink4.berkeley.edu

In the Progressive Era, many immigrant and working-class girls were tried for crimes of immorality, were confined to reformatories, and were sometimes forced to undergo sterilization. This article discusses social workers' relationship to these practices that criminalized adolescent female sexuality by examining two branches of the burgeoning profession: the social reformers and the caseworkers.

Affilia, Vol. 15, No. 1, 49-64 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/088610990001500104


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