title: Coming of age on the city streets in 19th-century America.
abstract: Broken free of any semblance of family control or community restraints, thousands of American youth roamed entirely at will throughout the cities of 19th-century America and supported themselves alternately from the legitimate street trades and from outright thievery. The invention of modern adolescence was partially a response to this neglected condition of urban youth.
authors.affiliation: University of North Texas, Denton 76203.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Teeter
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population