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- Title
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CHILDREN IN THE JUVENILE COURT.
- Authors
Goddard, Henry H.
- Abstract
This article discusses the social responsibility of children in the juvenile courts. It is now realized that children are not responsible to the same extent as adults and that the very atmosphere of the room in which adult offenders are tried is inimical to childhood and that a separate room and a separate time should be set aside for the juvenile offender, and it is desirable also to have a special judge for juvenile cases. Judges in the Juvenile Court deals with those extremes of childhood which do not come under the rule of the average and especially with those children, the like of which he himself never was and perhaps has never even seen outside the court room. One cannot sit in the Juvenile Court a half day either as judge or visitor without realizing the tremendous responsibility upon him who has to decide the cases, has to deal with each according to the responsibility of the offender; who must, if the child is thoroughly developed and normal for his age, treat him with that kind severity which shall show him the error of his ways and give him the inspiration to better conduct.
- Subjects
JUVENILE courts; JUVENILE offenders; PROBLEM youth; SOCIAL conditions of children; JUSTICE administration; CRIMINAL courts
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1912, Vol 3, Issue 3, p365
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1132934