Juvenile Justice in the Making

In his engaging narrative history of the rise and workings of America's first juvenile court, David 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 the while fighting political and legal battles to legitimate this controversial institution. Harkening back to a more hopeful and nuanced age, Juvenile Justice in the Making provides a valuable
historical framework for thinking about youth policy.

Author: David S. Tanenhaus
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/08/2005
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.84h x 5.26w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780195306507

About the Author

Co-editor of A Century of Juvenile Justice and Editor of the Law and History Review, 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.

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