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Juvenile courts were established in the early twentieth century with the ideal of saving young offenders from ?delinquency.? Many kids, however, never made it to juvenile court. Their cases were decided by a different agency?the police.Cops and Kids analyzes how police regulated juvenile behavior in turn-of-the-century America. Focusing on Los Angeles, Chicago, and Detroit, it examines how police saw their mission, how they dealt with public demands, and how they coped daily with kids. Whereas most scholarship in the field of delinquency has focused on progressive-era reformers who created a separate juvenile justice system, David B. Wolcott?s study looks instead at the complicated, sometimes coercive, relationship between police officers and young offenders. Indeed, Wolcott argues, police officers used their authority in a variety of ways to influence boys? and girls? behavior. Prior to the creation of juvenile courts, police officers often disciplined kids by warning and releasing
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