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Volume 27, Issue 2 (Fall 2003)
Volume 27, Issue 1 (Spring 2003)
A Very Special Place In Life: The History Of Juvenile Justice In Missouri, Douglas E. Abrams
A Very Special Place In Life: The History Of Juvenile Justice In Missouri, Douglas E. Abrams
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A Very Special Place in Life: The History of Juvenile Justice in Missouri chronicles the nineteenth century struggle for a special court to rehabilitate delinquent and dependent children and their families. The leaders were dedicated reformers- the "child savers" who sought to remove children from poorhouses, prisons and other harsh institutions that left little hope for productive adulthood. A Very Special Place in Life traces the twentieth century growth of Missouri's juvenile courts. It discusses the profound changes wrought by the United States Supreme Court's Gault decision, which triggered the "due process revolution" in the nation's juvenile courts in 1967. …