COPS AND KIDS: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890–1940 (HISTORY CRIME & CRIMINAL JUS)
A historical analysis of urban policing and juvenile delinquency in America from 1890 to 1940, exploring institutional responses to youth crime.
About This Book
This book examines the development of policing practices aimed at youth in American cities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It explores the evolving relationship between law enforcement institutions and juvenile offenders in an era of rapid urbanization.
The study draws on archival sources to trace changing policies, attitudes, and methods used by police when dealing with young people.
Attention is given to the broader social and institutional forces that influenced how delinquency was defined and managed.
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