Chapter 1. Introduction: Presentation of the book; Jean Trépanier and Xavier Rousseaux.- PART 1 - An International Overview.- Chapter 2. The roots and development of juvenile justice: An international overview; Jean Trépanier.- PART 2 - Nineteenth Century Responses to Juvenile Delinquincy: Punishment, Reform and Child Protection.-Chapter 3. The origins of informal juvenile court practices and of the juvenile reformatory in England, 1815-1855; Peter King.
- Chapter 4: From punishment to reform: Boys in prison and reform institutions, 1853-1923; François Fenchel, Jean Trépanier and Sylvie Ménard.- Chapter 5. "At-Risk" Children and the Montreal Ladies' Benevolent Society Industrial School, 1883-1921; Janice Harvey.- Part 3 - A New Institution in the Welfare Era: Juvenile Court Policies and Practice.- Chapter 6. Between great expectations and hard times: the first decade of Geneva's juvenile court (1914-1925); Joëlle Droux and Mariama Kaba.- Chapter 7. The role of the juvenile judge in the family supervision order in the Netherlands, 1922-1940; Ingrid van der Bij.
- Chapter 8. A 'wayward' or 'incorrigible' youth? Juvenile crime and correctional education in post-war Germany, 1945-1953; David Meeres.- Chapter 9. Youth crime redefined: The practice of scientific observation and diagnosis within the framework of Belgian Child Protection (1913-1960); Jenneke Christiaens.- Part 4 - Children and Families Before the Juvenile Court.- Chapter 10. Girls' journeys to the juvenile court, Antwerp, 1912-1933; Margo De Koster.- Chapter 11.
Juvenile delinquency in wartime and peacetime. The activity of the juvenile court of Namur (1912-1950); Aurore François.- Chapter 12. The price of virtue. Socio-judicial regulation of juvenile sexuality in France during the first half of the 20th Century; David Niget.- Chapter 13. Children and their families in the Montreal Juvenile Delinquents Court (1912-1950): Actors or spectators of their own fate?; Jean Trépanier.- Chapter 14.
Conclusion: Towards a transnational history of youth in justice systems; Jean Trépanier and Xavier Rousseaux.- Index.