Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. A Police-Centered Story of Juvenile Justice
Chapter 1. Competing Ideas of Delinquency
Chapter 2. Growing Up and Getting in Trouble in Turn-of-the-Century Detroit
Chapter 3. Juvenile Justice before Juvenile Court: Detroit, 1890–1908
Chapter 4. The Widening Net of Juvenile Justice, 1908–19
Chapter 5. Police in the Service of Chicago’s “Court of Last Resort”
Chapter 6. The Rise of Police Crime Prevention, 1919–40
Chapter 7. Shifting Priorities: Targeting Serious Crime and Minority Youth in Interwar Los Angeles
Chapter 8. Saving Young Offenders or Getting Tough on Juvenile Crime? Police and the Expanding Network of Juvenile Justice
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index