Graduate Student, History
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Dr. Richard Hamm
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My research concerns the status of children within the American legal system, particularly the competing intersections of culpability, consent, and the societal desire for justice. Having previously published on the oft-contentious and difficult relationship between children and the Dutch legal system as presented within the New Netherland colony, I have currently turned my interest to the mid-20th century to examine how American society understood and defined age as a performative construct during the Affluent Society. Focusing on juvenile delinquency, my interest is to consider the prosecution of deviant youth within the context of fluctuating societal boundaries as reflected in American legal culture.
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