Books by Anthony M. Platt

Presents an analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system. Focusing on social reformers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this work argues that the 'child savers' movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but, instead, a punitive and intrusive attempt to control the lives of working-class urban adolescents.

An interdisciplinary study that is part historical analysis, part cultural critique, part detective story, and part memoir. This book is both a detailed analysis and a record of the author's activist efforts to correct the historical record in which the author explores many interrelated issues.