JUVENILE COURT • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Juvenile court

... informed that during one year, ending early in 1917, this society received twenty-eight applications from Negro families who had recently come from the South. This same report states also that the Juvenile Court had received relatively few applications; that the Children's Bureau had not removed any children from newly arrived families; and that the House of Detention had handled only twenty-eight children arrested on one charge ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various

... brutally that the boy was afraid to venture again. There are scars on Shorty's feet made by a hot iron the last time he tried to escape from his brother. Shorty is not quite nineteen yet. That is how he comes under the Juvenile Court." ...

— Prince Jan, St. Bernard • Forrestine C. Hooker