The Delinquent Girl

Publication Date: February 1914

Publisher:

Author(s): Mrs. Julius Andrews

Research Area: Justice; Social conditions

Keywords: Law; Social Services; Crime; Sex

Type: Newsletter

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author addresses the issue of girls who become pregnant as unmarried teenages, and who are institutionalized or ostracized as sex offenders. She argues that, from a justice perspective, courts must hold men and women equally responsible for these sex offenses, and from a social perspective, communities and especially the Jewish community must take proactive preventative measures to protect and nurture the morality of vulnerable girls.

In Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities 1913-1914, Baltimore, Vol.IV:7, ed. Lee F. Frankel.