Excerpt from Courts in the United States Hearing Children's Cases: Results of a Questionnaire Study Covering the Year 1918 Ninety per cent of the courts addressed served areas in which there was no city of or more inhabitants. The importance of the problem of court organization for the small town and the rural com munity is evident. Courts were grouped under two main heads - specially organized courts and courts not specially organized so far as known. Only courts reporting (a) separate hearings for children, (b) officially authorized probation service, and (c) the recording of social infor mation were classified as specially organized. In practically all cases these courts had some system of detention other than jail. The definition was based upon the primary and most common elements of juvenile-court organization. Many courts had other special features which might be considered essential to successful work with children. The. Minimum degree of specialization defined above was reported for 321 courts in 43 States and the District of Columbia - 16 per cent of the courts from which information was obtained. Of these 321 courts, 22 were juvenile courts established by Special laws and independent of other court systems. Undoubtedly the number of specially organized courts is understated, though the work of some of the courts may be less valuable than appeared from the replies to the questionnaires. It is clear that in the majority of jurisdictions in the United States special provision for children coming before the courts has not yet been made. 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.