Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child.. de Trost, Jennifer - 2005

2005. Trost, Jennifer. Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xi, 209 pp. Original cloth, with stamped spine. New, $17. * "The Juvenile Court of Memphis, founded in 1910, directed delinquent and dependent children into a variety of private charitable organizations and public correctional facilities. Drawing on the court's case files and other primary sources, Jennifer Trost explains the complex interactions between parents, children, and welfare officials in the urban South" (Publisher's description).