Resumen de Networks, Lobbies and Pressures: Children's Aid Societies and the Adoption of the Canadian Juvenile Delinquents Act of 1908
The Juvenile Delinquents Act of 1908 laid the foundations for the development of juvenile justice in Canada at the same time as similar laws were passed in other European nations and American states. It was adopted by Parliament in spite of opposition from the Justice Minister. Its content reflected the fact that it was conceived and processed through Parliament under the initiative of children's aid societies that wanted to extend to juvenile delinquents protective interventions that had been developed for children in danger. This paper shows how one man who was part of several networks successfully used his associations with children's aid societies, the American child saving movement and Canadian political circles to play a key role in the adoption of the act
