| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Juvenile Justice in the Making. By David S. Tanenhaus. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xxx, 231 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-516045-2.)
In Juvenile Justice in the Making, David S. Tanenhaus explores the early decades of the nation's first juvenile court, established in 1899 in Chicago. His explicit aim is to recover a "usable past" that "can help us to think more clearly about the future of juvenile justice" (p. xxvii).	1
One of Tanenhaus's central arguments is that the juvenile court has been a "work in progress" (p. xxviii). During the 1890s the Chicago Woman's Club spearheaded the campaign for the court's creation. After 1899 women activists continued their involvement through the Juvenile Court Committee. Until 1907 they paid the salary of fifteen probation officers, funded and ran the children's detention center, and even purchased the omnibus needed to transport children to court. Many of the defining features of progressive juvenile justice, such as separate juvenile detention facilities, private hearings, probation departments, and psychological testing, did not become standard practice until the 1920s.	. . .

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