This course will examine juvenile delinquency in historical, sociocultural, and policy contexts during the past two centuries, and will focus mainly on the United States from the creation of the first juvenile reform school in 1825 to the Supreme Court's famous decision in 1967 requiring that juvenile offenders receive select due process protections. Three themes will be emphasized: 1) changing legislative, judicial, correctional, and therapeutic attempts to define, punish, and rehabilitate "delinquent" youth; 2) behavior patterns of youths labeled "delinquent," and how their behaviors changed over time; and 3), images of "delinquents," especially as portrayed in films of the 1930s to 1960s.