Youth Squad: Policing Children in the Twentieth Century by Tamara Gene Myers

Youth Squad: Policing Children in the Twentieth Century

Tamara Gene Myers

272 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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Starting in the 1930s, urban police forces from New York City to Montreal to Vancouver established youth squads and crime prevention programs, dramatically changing the nature of contact between cops and kids. Gone was the beat officer who scared ...

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