Download or read book Legislating Change in the Juvenile Court written by Edwin McCarthy Lemert and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Juvenile Court System written by Edwin Lemert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based on a detailed analysis of change in the law and in the administration of justice affecting juvenile off enders in California in the fifties and sixties. It addresses how procedural law develops on a long-term basis and under what conditions. It also examines the processes by which revolutionary changes occur in law and the extent to which social change can be directed or controlled by legislation. Social action to revise California's juvenile court law, which had remained little changed since 1915, began in 1958. Subsequently a small group of legal reformers who perceived anomalies in the law and in the underlying philosophy of the court overcame substantial resistance to effect revolutionary revisions of the law. Lemert examines their experience to determine how changes of such magnitude could take place after decades of gradual adaptations in the juvenile courts. His study also looks into the consequences of this change on the court and related agencies of law enforcement. The author sets forth a socio-legal theory of change-a conception of paradigms, normal evolution, and revolution in law. He applies this theory to data, with special attention to the resistance to legal change and the processes by which it gives way to the adaptive process of normal law. Lemert discusses the substantive aspects of juvenile law as it relates to human affect and meaning, touching on the existential elements of justice. Professionals dealing with juveniles, legal scholars, sociologists, and political scientists will find this book, with its emphasis on how to achieve more equitable administration of juvenile justice, has much to contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of social change.
Download or read book Social Action Legal Change written by Edwin McCarthy Lemert and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reforming Juvenile Justice written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Download or read book Juvenile Crime Juvenile Justice written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-06-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though youth crime rates have fallen since the mid-1990s, public fear and political rhetoric over the issue have heightened. The Columbine shootings and other sensational incidents add to the furor. Often overlooked are the underlying problems of child poverty, social disadvantage, and the pitfalls inherent to adolescent decisionmaking that contribute to youth crime. From a policy standpoint, adolescent offenders are caught in the crossfire between nurturance of youth and punishment of criminals, between rehabilitation and "get tough" pronouncements. In the midst of this emotional debate, the National Research Council's Panel on Juvenile Crime steps forward with an authoritative review of the best available data and analysis. Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice presents recommendations for addressing the many aspects of America's youth crime problem. This timely release discusses patterns and trends in crimes by children and adolescentsâ€"trends revealed by arrest data, victim reports, and other sources; youth crime within general crime; and race and sex disparities. The book explores desistanceâ€"the probability that delinquency or criminal activities decrease with ageâ€"and evaluates different approaches to predicting future crime rates. Why do young people turn to delinquency? Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice presents what we know and what we urgently need to find out about contributing factors, ranging from prenatal care, differences in temperament, and family influences to the role of peer relationships, the impact of the school policies toward delinquency, and the broader influences of the neighborhood and community. Equally important, this book examines a range of solutions: Prevention and intervention efforts directed to individuals, peer groups, and families, as well as day care-, school- and community-based initiatives. Intervention within the juvenile justice system. Role of the police. Processing and detention of youth offenders. Transferring youths to the adult judicial system. Residential placement of juveniles. The book includes background on the American juvenile court system, useful comparisons with the juvenile justice systems of other nations, and other important information for assessing this problem.
Download or read book The Changing World of Juvenile Law written by Monrad G. Paulsen and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Changing of the Guard in the Juvenile Justice System written by Rochelle Emmel and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislation on Extended Juvenile Court Jurisdiction written by Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Council and published by Legislative Reference Bureau. This book was released on 1985 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Responses to Serious Violent Juvenile Crime written by Patricia Torbet and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report documents the changes sweeping across the Nation in the handling of serious and violent juvenile offenders. All legislation enacted in 1992-95 that targeted violent or other serious crime by juveniles was analyzed to determine common themes and trends. Telephone surveys of juvenile justice practitioners in every State provided anecdotal information about substantive and procedural changes that have occurred as a result of the new laws. This report presents a compilation of these changes, an analysis of the direction of those changes &, where appropriate, a historical perspective. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Juvenile Justice Legislation written by George Coppolo and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a brief summary of the major legislative changes in the juvenile justice system since 1995.
Download or read book Juvenile Court Laws in the United States written by Hastings H. Hart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Juvenile Court Laws in the United States: A Summary by States, by Thomas J. Homer; A Topical Abstract, by Grace Abbott; And the New Juvenile Court Law of Monroe County, N. Y material here presented is intended for the use of judges and officers of juvenile courts, of students of legislation, and of those who may undertake the preparation of new legislation or the revision of old legislation affecting dependent and delinquent children. Part I is a summary of the juvenile court legislation of the United States to 1908, inclusive, which was prepared in 1909, under the direction of John Koren, expert special agent of the United States Bureau of the Census, by Thomas J. Homer, of the Suffolk (Massachusetts) Bar. With the consent of Mr. Koren, his summary has been revised so as to cover the legislation of 1909. For most of the states the revision is complete to the close of 1909. For a few states, the changes made by the legislatures of 1909 have merely been indicated by foot notes, the text itself still comprising the legislation in force in 1908. The summary is printed by permission of Mr. E. Dana Durand, Commissioner of the Census. Part II is a topical abstract of state laws governing the trial and disposition of juvenile offenders, prepared by Miss Grace Abbott of Chicago in connection with a study of the Juvenile Court of Chicago made by the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, for the Russell Sage Foundation, and covering legislation in force at the close of 1909. It is published with the consent of the officers of the school. This abstract is arranged topically under eleven topics: I. The Court Given Jurisdiction; II. Extent of Jurisdiction; III. Procedure; IV. Records and Reports; V. Place of Holding Court and Exclusion of the Public; VI. Disposition of the Child Pending Trial; VII. Final Disposition of the Child; VIII. Probation Officers; IX. Construction of Juvenile Court Laws; X. Adult Responsibility for Juvenile Delinquency; XI. Relation of Court to Institution in which Children are Placed. Each topic is treated by states, alphabetically, enabling the reader to ascertain what is the legislation of each state with reference to each several topic. The topics are treated only in outline. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Juvenile Law Violators Human Rights and the Development of New Juvenile Justice Systems written by Eric L Jensen and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book throws new light on developments in the parameters of juvenile offending and public and political demands for security and intervention.
Download or read book A Summary of Juvenile Court Legislation in the United States written by Sophonisba Breckinridge and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the EDITOR'S NOTE. The juvenile-court legislation which has been enacted since 1899 by many States and by the United States Congress for the District of Columbia is evidence of the unsatisfactory state of the law prevailing prior to that time for dealing with offending children and with adults guilty of offenses against children and also of the inadequate provision for the care of destitute family groups in which there were children. The law under which offending children or adults guilty of offenses against children were dealt with was the criminal law with all its constitutional safeguards-ju1'y trial, confronting of Witnesses, sworn testimony-and with all its lack of provision for constructive treatment that goes with the individualization of punishment. Found "guilty" by a jury of his peers, the accused would suffer the penalty; "not guilty," and he went free, without constructive help, however great his need. The accused child had been, with certain restrictions as to age, dealt with exactly as the adult, and the adult accused of offending against the child could be only punished or acquitted. The courts before which these cases were tried were courts of criminal jurisdiction whose rank, whether justices' courts, magistrates' courts, or circuit courts, depended upon the seriousness of the offenses charged. For the care of families in destitute condition there were in a number of States statutory provisions, similar to those in the English' Poor Law, imposing a duty of support on certain relatives and requiring aid to be given by local public officials, of whom intelligent and competent relief could be rarely expected. These statutes provided for the enforcement of the duty of support by an action generally before the county court or the corresponding tribunal possessing functions partly udicial and partly administrative. There had also been developed a body of legislation providing for the institutional care of children from degraded homes. These statutes authorize the establishment of institutions to which the children of drunken, immoral parents might be committed. The establishment and conduct of these institutions has often given rise to difficult and delicate situations. The juvenile-court legislation then deals with a complicated group of pi oblems: That of the offending adult, the accused child, the neglectful and degraded parent, the incompetent or unfaithful guardian, the family that is simply poor. This legislation must contain provisions concerning methods of complaint, of apprehension, and of detention; structure and organization of the juvenile court and its relation to the other tribunals; records, procedure, organization of the probation staff, and methods of disposition of the various kinds of cases; and the relation of the court to the agencies upon which it must depend-charitable, educational, correctional. These new provisions will be to a considerable extent determined by the nature of the old law; and the new legal and social structure which the statute attempts to substitute for the old will not possess unity and simplicity, but will inevitably offer proof of the varied problems giving rise to its enactment.....
Download or read book A Summary of Juvenile court Legislation in the United States written by United States Children's Bureau and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1917, this landmark study was among the first to document the nascent juvenile justice system in the United States. Jeter and Breckinridge's groundbreaking research helped to lay the foundation for a national policy of reform and rehabilitation for young offenders. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Summary of Juvenile Court Legislation in the United States Classic Reprint written by Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Summary of Juvenile-Court Legislation in the United States Washington, August 14, sir: Herewith I submit a summary of juvenile-court legislation in the United States, prepared by Miss Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, who has written the editor's note, and Miss Helen R. Jeter, of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. A considerable amount of preliminary work was done by Miss Lulu L. Eckman, of the Children's Bureau. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book A Summary of Juvenile Court Legislation in the United States written by Breckinridge Sophonisba Pres 1866-1948 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
