Documents Relative to the House of Refuge, Instituted by the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York, in 1824.
New York: Mahlon Day, 1832.
Price: $450.00
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Lithographed frontispiece view and engraved portrait. 311, [1]pp. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. Spine a bit darkened, one corner bumped. Sabin 30640.
Item #323575
The New York House of Refuge, located on the Bowery, was the first juvenile reformatory in the United States, largely tasked with "educating" the growing city's immigrant and socio-economically disadvantaged populations for crimes such as petty larceny and vagrancy. This report includes all the acts related to the establishment of the reformatory in 1824, along with the rules and regulations of the institution, the first seven annual reports and some statistical information on the number of residents and their work.
