Child savers

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The child savers were a 19th century reformers who developed programs for disturbed and troubled youth. Today some critics say that they were concerned with the control of the poor rather than their welfare.

The child-saving movement emerged in the United States during the nineteenth century in the United States and it influenced the development of the juvenile justice system. Child-savers stressed the value of redemption and prevention through early identification of deviance and intervention in the form of education and training.

Humanitism and altruism were not the only motivating factors for the child-savers. There is suggestions that an additional and perhaps overriding aim was to expand control over poor and immigrant children.

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• PBS Child or adult? a century long view

Roach Anleu, S (1995) Lifting the lid: Perspectives on social control, youth crime and juvenile 

 justice. In simpson,  C & Hill, R eds, Ways of Resistance: Social Control 

and young people in Australia. Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, pp.22-45.

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