# The Criminal Child

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- Book: [The Criminal Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-genet/the-criminal-child) ([The Criminal Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-genet/the-criminal-child.md))
- Authors: [Jean Genet](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-genet), [Charlotte Mandell](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlotte-mandell), [Jeffrey Zuckerman](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeffrey-zuckerman)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-361-4
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2020-01-21
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, Radiodiffusion...