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The Rediscovery of Juvenile Delinquency

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BrumbergJoan Jacobs. Kansas Charley: The Story of a Nineteenth-Century Boy Murderer. New York: Viking, 2003. xii + 273 pp. Prologue, illustrations, notes, index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-670-03228-X; $15.00 (paper), ISBN 01420-0488-X.
TrostJennifer. Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xi + 209 pp. Introduction, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8203-2664-X; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8203-2671-2.
WolcottDavid B.Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005. x + 264 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8142-1002-3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Bill Bush
Bill Bush
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 393 - 402
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2006

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References

1 In addition to Mennel, Robert M., Thorns and Thistles: juvenile Delinquents in the United States, 1825-1940 (Hanover, NH, 1973)Google Scholar; Schlossman, Steven L., Love and the American Delinquent: The Theory and Practice of “Progressive” Juvenile Justice, 1825-1920 (Chicago, 1977)Google Scholar; Rothman, David J., Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America (Boston, 1980)Google Scholar; see also Brenzel, Barbara, Daughters of the State: A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America, 1856-1905 (Cambridge, 1983)Google Scholar; and Schneider, Eric C., In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s (New York, 1992)Google Scholar.

2 In addition to the books under review here, see also Feld, Barry C., Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (New York, 1999)Google Scholar; Anne Meis Knupfer, Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America's First juvenile Court (New York, 2001)Google Scholar; and Tanenhaus, David S., Juvenile Justice in the Making (New York, 2004)Google Scholar.

3 See also Shelden, Randall G. and Osborne, Lynn T., ‘“For Their Own Good’: Class Interests and the Child-Saving Movement in Memphis, Tennessee, 1900-1917.” Criminology 27 (1989): 747CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Odem, Mary E., Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (Chapel Hill, 1995).Google Scholar

5 Kasson, John F., Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York, 1978)Google Scholar; and Peiss, Kathy, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in New York, City, 1880 to 1920 (Philadelphia, 1986)Google Scholar.

6 Shaw, Clifford R., The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy's Own Story (Chicago, 1930).Google Scholar