Cops and kids: policing juvenile delinquency in urban America, 1890-1940

Introduction : a police-centered story of juvenile justice

1. Competing ideas of delinquency

2. Growing up and getting in trouble in turn-of-the-century Detroit

3. Juvenile justice before juvenile court : Detroit, 1890-1908

4. The widening net of juvenile justice, 1908-19

5. Police in the service of Chicago's "court of last resort"

6. The rise of police crime prevention, 1919-40

7. Shifting priorities : targeting serious crime and minority youth in interwar Los Angeles

8. Saving young offenders or getting tough on juvenile crime? Police and the expanding network of juvenile justice.