| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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David B. Wolcott. Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890–1940. (History of Crime and Criminal Justice.) Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 264. Cloth $44.95, CD $9.95.

Over several decades, historians have moved the study of juvenile justice from theory to institutional formation to actual practice. Class and race have loomed large in analysis; some of the best recent work has explored the influence of gender, particularly on the treatment of girls. But one organization, the juvenile court, has remained central to all such studies. David B. Wolcott takes a major step toward forming a more complete model of how juvenile justice developed and changed over time. Since many more youths had encounters with police—warnings, even arrests—than ever appeared in juvenile court, the police records that Wolcott has used offer a much broader perspective of both juvenile delinquency and government responses to it than do court records. This book is, however, not an exercise in "gotcha" revisionism but an expansion that builds on recent scholarship.

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