NCJ Number
178416
Journal
International Criminal Justice Review Volume: 8 Dated: 1998 Pages: 61-73
Date Published
1998
Length
13 pages
Annotation
This article uses three models of juvenile justice to examine the usefulness of the analysis usually given to Canada's situation for understanding changes in juvenile justice legislation in Taiwan.
Abstract
Canada's changes in juvenile justice legislation have been extensively analyzed in relation to the country's urbanization, industrialization, and growth in education in the last century. The welfare, justice, and crime control models of juvenile justice are often used to analyze changes in the Canadian approach to juvenile justice; Canada's legislation combined progressive and reactionary responses to the changes the country experienced. Canada changed from a welfare model to a justice model of juvenile justice as a result of the perceived failure of rehabilitation and because of civil-rights concerns that led to a consolidation of the attorney's place in the juvenile justice system. Taiwan has also experienced urbanization, industrialization, and growth in education. Taiwan was governed by the authoritarian and repressive Kuomintang, which symbolically established a welfare-model approach to juvenile justice because it considered this model to be part of progress and pleasing to the United States, its major supporter. Its shift from not implementing a welfare approach to implementing a crime-control approach reflected issues and factors different from those in Canada. Thus, the Canadian analysis is only partially adequate for understanding the Taiwanese case. Footnote and 34 references (Author abstract modified)