U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR CHILDREN'S BUREAU JULIA C. LATHROP, Chief COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES HEARING CHILDREN'S CASES RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY By EVELINA BELDEN DEPENDENT, DEFECTIVE, AND DELINQUENT CLASSES SERIES No. 8 Total number of courts and number furnishing information, together with areas 25 29 29 Significant aspects of the legal jurisdiction under which children's courts Provision for physicial and mental examinations-Continued. Resources for mental examinations-Continued. Universities, colleges, and normal schools... Elementary schools... Other clinics or examiners.. Other examiners reported..... States in which no court reported mental examinations.. Cooperation of the court with the community. Local and county boards or agencies... State-wide agencies.... TABLES. Page. 67 68 68 68 69 71-74 71 73 Table I. Number and per cent of courts replying to all or part of questionnaire inquiry, by population of largest city in area served...... 25 Table II. Number and per cent of courts replying to questionnaire for judge, by population of largest city in area served..... 25 Table III. Number and per cent of courts replying to questionnaire for probation officer, by population of largest city in area served......... 26 Table IV. Number of courts replying to all or part of questionnaire inquiry, by State... Table V. Courts serving specified areas by States.. Table VI. Specially organized courts and general courts, by population of largest city in area and type of area served................ Table VII. Comparison of dispositions of delinquency cases in the Chicago court and in other courts in Illinois during one year... 41 Table VIII. Types of detention homes and rooms reported used in 1918, by courts serving specified areas. 46 Table IX. Total courts and courts with and without probation service by Table X. Number and per cent of courts with probation service, and courts with specified type of service, by population of largest city in area served.... Table XI. Courts reporting mental examinations, by population of largest city in area served...... 54 64 Table XII. Total courts reporting mental examinations in clinics or by mental examiners, with area, served, by type of clinic or examiner... 65 APPENDIXES. Appendix A. Charts .. 75-101 Chart I. Juvenile courts established by special laws, and court systems having jurisdiction over children's cases of delinquency and neglect, by States..... 75 II. Methods of appointment of probation officers reported from the 79 III. Courts reporting special organization for hearing children's cases, 1918..... 82 Appendix B. Questionnaire forms.. Appendix C. Reports relating to work of courts hearing children's cases. 103 109 |