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Book Review


Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City. By Jennifer Trost. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xiv, 209 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2664-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2671-2.)
Most historical monographs about juvenile delinquency have examined nonsouthern urban settings. However, as Jennifer Trost notes, the South, and Memphis in particular, were unique in their patterns of racial migration and segregation, the persistence of rural and local traditions, and their resistance to emerging state powers, such as juvenile courts. For this reason, Gateway to Justice is an important addition to legal history scholarship. . . .
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