Excerpt from The Juvenile Court System of Kansas: Submitted to the University of Chicago in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of ArtsOf the raw material necessary to such a study as this there are, as we have already intimated, three sources: observation, the interview, and written reports, and it has been upon the last of these sources that we have necessarily had in large measure to rely, though we have been in touch with one of the best courts in the state, and have had a lifelong apprenticeship as a student of Kansas institutions and conditions. But the acquisition of this written matter is by no means easy in the absence of up - to date reports. In fact, no official reports that relate directly to our subject are in existence. Of the courts themselves the law does not require reports and scarcely any records. The state institutions to which commitments are made have no reports out that cover the period of a year and a third that the Juvenile Court Act has been in operation. The State Board of Control created a little over a year ago for the management of the state, and the supervision of the private, charitable institutions and associations is now preparing a comprehensive report of their work for the past biennium, to be published in the early autumn, however, but to little of this did we have access. Besides, since its control over the courts is only incidental to their commit ments, the report will probably bear on our problem only as it concerns state institutions in relation to the courts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.