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Zusatztext "In his compelling new history of Juvenile Justice in the Making, David S. Tanenhaus has accomplished what many scholars considered all but impossible: a fresh historical interpretation of the development, operation, and enduring importance of the juvenile court. Scholars, lawyers, child welfare workers [or children's advocates], and policy pundits will wrestle with the significance and perhaps even more with the lessons of Tanenhaus' bold new opening." Harvey J. Graff, author of Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America Informationen zum Autor Co-editor of A Century of Juvenile Justice, David S. Tanenhaus is Associate Professor of History and the James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Klappentext In his engaging narrative history of the rise and workings of America's first juvenile court, Davis S. Tanenhaus explores the fundamental and enduring question of how the law should treat the young. Sifting through almost 3,000 previously unexamined Chicago case files from the early twentieth century, Tanenhaus reveals how children's advocates slowly built up a separate system for juveniles, all while fighting political and legal battles to legitimate this controversial institution. Zusammenfassung Faith in childhood, and its corollary that separate courts are required for children because they are developmentally different from adults, appears to be vanishing in the USA. This book examines one of America's most influential legal inventions and its future. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Foreword entroduction 1: Imagining a Children's Court 2: Building a Model Court 3: Preserving the Family 4: Legitimating Juvenile Justice 5: Medicalizing Deliquency 6: Organizing the Community Conclusion/Appendix/Bibliographic Essays
