Originally published: Love & the American delinquent. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1977. With a new introd. and bibliography addendum.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-295) and index.
Contents
Precedent and policy : the law of American juvenile justice -- Juvenile justice in the age of Jackson -- Domesticating the house of refuge: the family reform school in Victorian America -- Love on the move : the juvenile court movement in progressive America -- The Victorian reform school : a false start -- The heyday of the family reform school? -- The juvenile court movement in microcosm : Milwaukee -- The operational meaning of noninstitutional treatment -- The heyday of the juvenile court?