emerging detention model on the English model. The early forms of the detention of juveniles were quickly overwhelmed with increasing numbers of juvenile delinquents. Out of this was formed the formal juvenile justice system in the Gold Coast, created in 1928. This was the first time juveniles who broke the Gold Coast law were separated from adults who committed crimes, in all of Ghana's history. Judges had the power to send juvenile boys to the Boys' School at Ada, which was supervised by the Salvation Army. This school was charged with caring and treating juvenile delinquents. Under this system, a juvenile was defined as a person under the age of 16. The British set up a number of juvenile justice institutions. After the Boys' School at Ada was established in 1929 it was renamed and moved three times between 1936 and 1947. The supervision of the school was transferred from the Salvation Army to the Department of Education, which was newly formed in 1945. In 1945 the first industrial school was also established to deal with juveniles between the ages of 16 and 21. The industrial school was tasked with dealing with juveniles who required more serious corrective training. The colonial powers began to more rapidly expand the juvenile justice system. Some viewed this to be a display of the strength of colonial discipline, arguably attempting to show the British's commitment to welfare and reform. They established a second Boys Industrial School in Tamale, an Industrial School for Girls in Accra and other remand and probation homes. These institutions were continued to use as a foundation for post-colonial independent Ghana's juvenile justice system. The nature of the delinquents crimes in Ghana shifted. In the beginnings of the formation nearly 80% of juvenile delinquents in the Gold Coast were charged with theft. However, by the 1950s many of the delinquents were a part of youth sub-cultures and urban gangs. In addition, the detection of juvenile justice delinquents dramatically increased over the years, jumping from about 200 to 300 per year in the 1920s–1930s to over 1,000 per year in the mid 1950s. Hynd argued that under the colonial state Juveniles were seen as threats, they represented an unknown future, and a loss of control. Hynd argues that the British colonial power used the treatment and care of juvenile delinquents to socially reform the youth into being colonial subjects. She stated, the