The Trend of the Juvenile Court
Year: 1914
Type: article
Abstract: Workers and thinkers in the field of the juvenile court have, consciously or unconsciously, divided in theory and in practice during recent years. By contrasting sharply their differing views, and by noting the various courts with these contrasts in mind, the writer purposes to bring out certain conclusions as to the present trend of the juvenile court as an institution. An analysis of the functions performed at present by juvenile courts will show to what extent the differences in their policies are reconcilable. One group of workers tends to expand the court's work to include many different services as the need arises or the budget allows. Another group wishes to limit the court's functions, or to transfer them entirely to other agencies. There are two conspicuous lines of thought in this second group, each equally plausible, which at first sight, however, seemed to the writer mutually exclusive. On the one hand, there is the statement that the functions of the juvenile court should be taken over by the school system. On the other hand is the argument that they could better be performed by fusion with a domestic relations court, handling the whole family unit.
Author: Thomas D. Eliot
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2026674875