Cops and Kids : Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940 / David B. Wolcott.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of crime and criminal justice | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2005Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (264 pages): illustrationsContent type:
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  • computer
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  • 9780814272800
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Contents:
Introduction : a police-centered story of juvenile justice -- 1. Competing ideas of delinquency -- 2. Growing up and getting in trouble in turn-of-the-century Detroit -- 3. Juvenile justice before juvenile court : Detroit, 1890-1908 -- 4. The widening net of juvenile justice, 1908-19 -- 5. Police in the service of Chicago's "court of last resort" -- 6. The rise of police crime prevention, 1919-40 -- 7. Shifting priorities : targeting serious crime and minority youth in interwar Los Angeles -- 8. Saving young offenders or getting tough on juvenile crime? Police and the expanding network of juvenile justice.
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Introduction : a police-centered story of juvenile justice -- 1. Competing ideas of delinquency -- 2. Growing up and getting in trouble in turn-of-the-century Detroit -- 3. Juvenile justice before juvenile court : Detroit, 1890-1908 -- 4. The widening net of juvenile justice, 1908-19 -- 5. Police in the service of Chicago's "court of last resort" -- 6. The rise of police crime prevention, 1919-40 -- 7. Shifting priorities : targeting serious crime and minority youth in interwar Los Angeles -- 8. Saving young offenders or getting tough on juvenile crime? Police and the expanding network of juvenile justice.

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