Revising Reform: a Cultural History of Juvenile Justice Reform in the United States

Abstract

The “child saving” movement of the late 19th century has been largely credited with the political and moral impetus for the first distinctly “juvenile” courts in Chicago, which were established in 1899 and became the model by which juvenile justice systems across the United States were based. Through the work of Jane Addams and her Settlement House colleagues, the birth of these new structures for governing juvenile delinquency, such as the Juvenile Protective Association, were also indelibly..