...Court. In July 1899, the Illinois Juvenile Court Act was passed. The bill, officially entitled the Act to Regulate the Treatment and Control of Dependent, Neglected and Delinquent Children, was the first comprehensive and modern juvenile justice statute. The act codified several then-radical...

...bill would probably have failed to be passed.93 On April 14, both Houses of the legislature passed "an act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children."9 Summary The juvenile court act of 1899 culminated nearly thirty years of reform efforts...

...(Winter 2001): 203, 208. 58. Ibid., 215-18; People v. McFarlin, 389 Mich. 557, 208 NW2d 504 (1973); An act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children, 1907 Mich. Pub. Acts 463, and An act to define, and regulate the treatment and control of delinquent...