Description: Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Eloquent Advocacy: Mayhew's Use of Oral History 2. Mayhew on Delinquency and "Street Biography" 3. John Clay and the "Cell Confessional" 4. Boosterism: The Art of the Appendix in Nineteenth-Century America 5. Snitching Bees and Talking Cures: The Early Juvenile Court 6. "If Men Define Situations as Real, They Are Real in Their Consequences" 7. Chicago: The City as Laboratory 8. Transmission of Delinquent and Reformist Attitudes: Clifford Shaw 9. The Political Paradigm: Saul Alinsky, Howard S. Becker, and the Autobiography of a Girl Drug Addict 10. Conclusions: Genesis, Function, Accomplishment Appendix: Aspects of Technique: Mayhew, Healy, and Shaw Notes Bibliography Index

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