Rights, race, and reform : 50 years of child advocacy in the juvenile justice system / edited by Laura Cohen, Kristin Henning, Ellen Marus.

In 1962, a 15-year-old Arizona boy named Gerald Gault may or may not have made a lewd phone call to a neighbor. Gerald was arrested, prosecuted, removed from his parents' custody, and sent to a juvenile prison, all without legal representation. Gerald's mother's outrage at the treatme...

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