Table of 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.