The New York City Family Court: A Law Guardian's Overview

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
Martin T. Silver
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
York City ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Law And Order

The New York City Family Court undertakes supervision of thousands of ghetto youngsters who have not adhered to the dehumanizing regimen imposed on them by public welfare agen cies and whose behavior, except when judged by highly arbitrary standards, is not antisocial. Its policy is to take jurisdiction of nearly any youngster brought before it, on the assumption that the ravages of poverty and injustice can be eradicated by psy chologists and social workers. What happens instead is that youngsters are forced into meaningless relationships with lawyers, probation officers, and judges. Too often, furthermore, the court's services are at the disposal of "law-and-order" men who use psychiatric tests to spot and "preventively detain" youngsters who have not committed antisocial acts.

Nearly Got Shot Dead, and He Didn’t Get His Little Check Yet: Workers, Crime, and Law and Order in New York City, 1962-1970

2021 ◽  
pp. 009614422199964
Author(s):  
Glenn Dyer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
York City ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Management Conflicts ◽  
High Crime ◽  
New Yorkers

Historians have conducted important research on the rise of law-and-order politics in New York City, where anxieties over women’s freedoms, political battles over police oversight, and crime impacts in poor communities contributed to its rise. The numerous walkouts, negotiations, and worker-management conflicts around high-crime areas in New York City suggest that the question of law and order was a salient workplace issue as well for the members of Communication Workers of America Local 1101. In their case, such concerns predate the rhetorical rise of law and order and help us better understand why such politics found fertile ground among working-class New Yorkers, white and black. Repeated incidences, largely in the city’s black ghettoes, prompted workers with a strong class consciousness and commitment to solidarity to transform the problems and experiences of individual workers into a shared question to be addressed via collective action.

Good parents, bad parents: Rethinking family involvement in juvenile justice

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Paik
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
York City ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Youth Delinquency

This article proposes a new theoretical model for studying family involvement in youth delinquency cases in juvenile court. It argues that before we can assess the family’s effect on case outcomes, we must first have a clearer understanding about the process by which family involvement is formed to consider the myriad factors that go beyond the idea of a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ parent. Based on qualitative data on families in New York City Family Court, this article shows how family involvement is not a predetermined factor but rather, the result of the institutional process itself as shaped by the family’s interactions with court staff as well as the youths’ behaviors and interactions with parents and staff.

The Guardian Angels: Law and Order and Citizen Policing in New York City

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 886-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiko Hillyer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Black And Latino

This article explores the rise of the Guardian Angels, a community patrol organization founded in 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and composed mainly of black and Latino youths. The group emerged in an era of economic restructuring coupled with a rising fear of crime. The Guardian Angels merit attention because of their peculiar relationship to the rise of law and order politics. They demonstrate that the fear of crime was neither the monopoly of the white middle class nor merely a construction of politicians. Black and Latino Guardian Angels were agents of community crime control who drew on existing customs of self-determination and distrust of the police. Ultimately, however, the activities and the rhetoric of the Guardian Angels contributed to the rise of a conservative discourse that justified the strengthening of the police state, anxiety about crime, and the gentrification of neighborhoods.

Against ‘law and order’ lockup: the 1970 NYC jail rebellions

Race & Class ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toussaint Losier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Preventive Detention ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Local Jail ◽  
Young Lords ◽  
Young Lords Party ◽  
Shed Light

The article focuses on a series of rebellions that occurred within the New York City jail system in 1970 over problems of overcrowding and inhumane conditions and the resurgent practice of preventive detention. While championed in the Nixon administration’s vision of ‘law and order’, preventive detention was carried out by John Lindsay, the liberal Republican mayor of New York City, not only against political dissidents, but also against working-class citizens too poor to afford bail. During the course of the October revolts in five facilities including the Tombs, Branch Queens, and Rikers Island, inmates called attention to this practice, winning an unprecedented set of bail review hearings during the course of their takeover of a local jail. These radical prison movements, which were influenced by inmates from the Black Panther Party and Young Lords Party, drew upon discourses of human rights, multiracial unity, and national liberation and also joined calls for broader social transformation. Though short-lived, these events shed light on the contested legacy of preventive detention, a crucial strategic reminder amidst today’s resurgence in ‘law and order’ rhetoric and practice.

Criteria for the Probation Officer's Recommendations to the Juvenile Court Judge

1963 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yona Cohn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Court Judge ◽  
Children's Court ◽  
Children’S Court

This study, conducted at the Bronx Children's Court in New York City, analyzes the underlying criteria used by probation officers in recommending probation, institutionalization, psychi atric examination, or discharge. Such features as sex, age, religion, race, home situation, employment, church attendance, and per sonality difficulties of the children in each of the four recom mendation groups are described and evaluated.

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