| Review | Journal of Social History, 40.3

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Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City. By Jennifer Trost (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xi plus 209 pp.).

Gateway to Justice meets a longstanding need for a study of the development of the juvenile justice system in the context of the American South. The southern city on which it focuses is Memphis, Tennessee. Jennifer Trost argues that several features of the city's juvenile court were distinctively southern, of which the treatment of race emerges most clearly in the book. Notwithstanding those regional variations, what is perhaps most striking about juvenile justice in Memphis is how similar to other parts of the United States were its origins, personnel and practices. Beyond its southern focus, the book also makes two broader contributions to advancing how we understand the juvenile court system. Trost locates the juvenile court within the context of the city's Progressive-era child welfare institutions and organizations, revealing how it operated as a gateway to that network. She also highlights the role the court performed in regard to dependent children, positioning that group as the objects of the court's work fully as much as the delinquent children who occupy most historians of juvenile justice.

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