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Peer reviewedBrenzel, Barbara – Harvard Educational Review, 1980
This history of Lancaster, a nineteenth-century reform school for poor girls, illustrates the change in reform ideology from belief in the efficacy of family-style environment to concern for protecting the social order from "hereditarily deviant" children. The role of institutions as mechanisms for social control of the poor and of women…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Theories, Children, Delinquent Rehabilitation
