NCJ Number
58749
Editor(s)
F L FAUST,
P J BRANTINGHAM
Date Published
1979
Length
479 pages
Annotation
THIS COLLECTION OF READINGS, CASES, AND COMMENTARIES PRESENTS HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE JUVENILE COURT SYSTEM IN THE U.S.
Abstract
FOLLOWING A GENERAL ESSAY TRACING THE DEVELOPMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE PHILOSOPHY THROUGH THE USE OF THREE MODELS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE--THE MODEL OF INTERVENTION, THE SOCIALIZED JUVENILE COURT MODEL, THE CONSTITUTIONALIST MODEL--READINGS ARE PROVIDED ON THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY ORIGINS OF THE JUVENILE COURT. SUCH TOPICS AS THE CLASSICAL AND POSITIVE SCHOOLS OF CRIMINOLOGY, THE RELATIONSHIP OF PHILANTHROPY TO SOCIAL ORDER AND PROGRESS, PARENS PATRIAE, AND THE RISE OF THE CHILD-SAVING MOVEMENT ARE COVERED. SUBSEQUENT SECTIONS PRESENT READINGS AND CASES RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF THE SOCIALIZED MODEL OF JUVENILE JUSTICE WHICH DOMINATED COURT THINKING FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, THE CONSTITUTIONALIST COMPLAINT AGAINST SOCIALIZED JUVENILE JUSTICE THAT EVENTUALLY LED TO A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE AMERICAN JUVENILE COURT, AND THE STATUTORY REVISIONS AND U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS WHICH CONVERTED SOCIALIZED JUVENILE JUSTICE INTO (1966), WINSHIP (1970), MCKEIVER (1971), AND ESPECIALLY GAULT (1967). THE FINAL SECTION FOCUSES ON POST-GAULT DEVELOPMENT IN READINGS DEALING WITH LEGAL COUNSEL IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM, THE JUVENILE COURT'S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY AND RESPONSIBILITY, THE DILEMMA OF FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM IN JUVENILE JUSTICE, JUVENILE COURT DIVERSION, NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE, AND ALTERNATIVE PATHS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE. CASE CITATIONS ARE FOOTNOTED. AN INDEX IS PROVIDED. (KBL)