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- Title
"JUSTICE" VERSUS "INDIVIDUALIZED TREATMENT" IN THE JUVENILE COURT.
- Authors
Bogen, David
- Abstract
The article focuses on the individualized treatment of criminals in the juvenile court. Those who advocate individualized treatment for criminal offenders feel that the commission of a crime indicates some underlying problem in the life of the offender and that the thing to do is to study the individual and his environment and to correct the causal factors which resulted in his wrong doing. Two people might commit the same offense for entirely different reasons and it follows that the treatment prescribed for them should be different, even though the offense was the same. From this point of view the offense represents a symptom of underlying causal factors and the aim is to treat the causal factors rather than the symptom; the individual rather than the offense. Penalties were not fixed for various types of offenses, but were largely left to the discretion of the judge. As a result it frequently turned out that men of wealth or station who committed grave crimes were leniently dealt with while poor miscreants without influence in the community were harshly punished for trivial offenses.
- Subjects
DISCRIMINATION in juvenile justice administration; JUVENILE courts; CRIMINAL courts; CRIMINALS; LEGAL judgments; JUVENILE delinquency
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (08852731), 1944, Vol 35, Issue 4, p249
- ISSN
0885-2731
- Publication type
Article