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Juvenile Justice in the Making (Hardcover, New)
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Juvenile Justice in the Making (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy
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"Tried as an adult." The phrase rings with increasing frequency
through America's courtrooms. In Michigan, an 11-year-old is
charged with first-degree homicide in the shooting death of a
playmate. A mentally disabled boy in Florida faces armed robbery
and extortion charges that could bring 30
years in prison for stealing $2 worth of food. Faith in childhood,
and its corollary that separate courts are required for children
because they are developmentally different from adults, appears to
be vanishing. Almost forgotten in this climate--in which a New York
Times' headline boldly announced
that the "Fear of Crime Trumps the Fear of Lost Youth"--is the fact
that the juvenile court is one of America's most influential legal
inventions.
Long before the crimes of the young became a national
preoccupation, Americans struggled with many of the same questions
posed by today's aggressive sentencing of minors. What is the legal
status of children? Does a particularly horrific crime merit a
commensurately severe response, regardless of
the age of the offender? Who belongs in juvenile court, and what is
its exact purpose?
In his engaging narrative history of the rise and workings of
America's first juvenile court, David S. Tanenhaus explores the
fundamental and enduring question of how the law should treat the
young. Sifting through almost 3,000 previously unexamined Chicago
case files from the early twentieth
century, Tanenhaus reveals how children's advocates slowly built up
a separate court system for juveniles, all the while fighting
political and legal battles to legitimate this controversial
institution. In the process, the juvenile court became a catalyst
for thedevelopment of the American welfare
state, the medicalization of child rearing, and the beginnings of
innovative community organizing programs.
Today, as America's treatment of juvenile offenders becomes
increasingly draconian, the United States, once a leader in the
international crusade to secure justice for children, is now in
this respect effectively a rogue nation. Harkening back to a more
hopeful and nuanced age Juvenile Justice in
the Making provides a valuable historical framework for thinking
about youth policy.
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