Title: Thorns & thistles :
Authors: Mennel, Robert M.
Date: 1973
Publisher: Published for the University of New Hampshire by the University Press of New England,
Physical description: xxvii, 231 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: Houses of refuge, 1825-1860 -- Preventive agencies and reform schools, 1850-1890 -- Scientific explanations of delinquency, 1880-1910 -- Scientific explanations of delinquency, 1880-1910 -- Crises and changes in institutional care, 1880-1910 -- The juvenile court, 1899-1940 -- Modern theories of juvenile delinquency, 1900-1940.
Subject headings (LCSH): Juvenile courts--United States--History.; Juvenile delinquency--United States--History.; Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--United States--History.