CC200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parens Patriae, Truancy, Young Offenders Act
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Chapter 2: creating a juvenile justice system: then and now. Youth crime and child savers : another view of the origin of the youth crime laws is that 19th-century north. American social reformers were influential in the creation of a separate justice system for juveniles: they believed that delinquency was the result of a bad social environment, children could be saved and therefore reformed through various methods. Juvenile delinquents acts (1908: originates with the ideas of j. j. kelso and w. l scott, child-saving: leads to the creation of a separate system of justice, adopted a child welfare philosophy. The jda was also too lenient, with police expected to act as parents of the youth offender: children"s aid societies: problems in how to best accomplish the goals of the. Jda: politicians: concerns lack of lawyer representation, high level of discretionary powers of probation officers, and lack of right to trial.
