Endless Crusade
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This study examines the careers of the first four American women to be trained as social scientists in the research universities of late 19th-century USA. The efforts of these women to institutionalize their approach to social analysis and investigation resulted in the first graduate school of social work to be…
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This book introduced me to some women who had an impact on criminology, as Frances Glessner Lee did later.
They moved between Hull House and the University of Chicago and worked hard to change laws and improve the justice system. They worked in prisons and courthouses.
I got ideas for my Emily Cabot Mysteries from this book, as one woman was amazed to find when she got to do graduate work at the university that she could work with actual police officials to do the sociological studies.
These women found that when they pushed they could make an impression and…
From Frances' list on real women in criminology.
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