Originally published: Love & the American delinquent. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1977. Includes bibliographical references (p. 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?
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