HIST 2800 Lecture 8: HistpostMarch02
24 May 2017
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Whilst at often times long and dry, the article the vicious girl and the street-corner boy: Sexuality and the gendered delinquent in the scottish child-saving movement , by linda. Mahood and barbara littlewood, gave detailed insight to the child-saving movement in scotland starting in the 1850"s. Child-savers during the movement removed children they deemed at risk from their families in order to break the cycle of depravation. The goals of the child-savers were to save the children of the poor who were seen to engage in disputable activities such as pick pocketing, vandalism, begging and smoking. They believed that they could cure at-risk children by incorporating doses of family ideology embodied in the practices of juvenile reformary. In scotland, the patterns and behaviour exercised by families of the poor that were seen as irresponsible by middle class families were survival strategies used by the poor.
