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Excerpt from Youth and Crime: A Study of the Prevalence and Treatment of Delinquency Among Boys Over Juvenile-Court Age in Chicago Although the press and the popular magazines have had much to say during the last few years, as they had a hundred years ago,1 about the problem of youthful crime, accurate information has not been available in the United States. Juvenile courts have kept their records so differently that comparison of one city with another as to the amount of juvenile delinquency which comes to the attention of the court has been impossible.2 Concerning young offenders above juvenile-court age practically no information _even local in character has been compile In order to throw Some light on the extent of delinquency among oung persons, the histories of such offenders, the methods of dea ing with them, and the results obtained, the Children's Bureau undertook a study of the cases dealt with by the first court in the United States to concern itself exclusively with young people between juvenile-court age and the age of legal major ity - the boys' court branch of the Chica o munic1pa1 court, which has jurisdiction over boys 17 to 20 years 0? Age, inclusive. Published statistics covering a period of 11 years, supplemented b annual reports of the jall and the police department, indicated t e extent of the delinquency problem among boys of this age and the trend in a e distribution and types of offense. The organization and policies 0? The court were studied, records of the court and social agencies were consulted for a selected number of cases, and more intensive studies of a limited number of boys were made through interviews with the boys, their mothers, and other members of their families. The material for the study was gathered in 1926. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.