| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.1

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David B. Wolcott. Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890–1940. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $44.95; CD, $9.95.

There would seem to be very little to discover in the well-researched field of juvenile-justice history. However, David Wolcott has made a novel contribution by analyzing police behavior in three cities: Detroit prior to the creation of the juvenile court, Chicago following its inception, and Los Angeles after 1920. Whenever possible, he uses arrest data to examine the shape of juvenile delinquency. The result is a study that is attentive to gender and race, examines the impact of reform ideology on the court and on the police, and pays careful attention to the offenses that brought children into the precinct house. Wolcott makes a convincing argument for the centrality of police discretion in the juvenile-justice process over time and in the three cities he studies.

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