scholarly journals Child Welfare and Delinquency: Examining Differences in First-Time Referrals of Crossover Youth within the Juvenile Justice System

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney Shrifter
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Crossover Youth ◽  
First Time

Out of the Picture: Latinx and White Male Youths’ Facial Features Predict Their Juvenile Justice System Processing Outcomes

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872199934
Author(s):  
Jacqueline M. Chen ◽  
Adam D. Fine ◽  
Jasmine B. Norman ◽  
Paul J. Frick ◽  
Elizabeth Cauffman
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
White Male ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
First Time ◽  
To Receive

Adults’ facial characteristics predict whether and how severely they are sentenced in the adult criminal justice system. We investigate whether characteristics of White and Latinx male youths’ faces predict the severity of their processing in the juvenile justice system. Among a sample of first-time offenders, despite no differences in the severity of their offenses, youth who were perceived by naïve observers as more dominant, less trustworthy, less healthy, and having darker skin were more likely to receive harsher sanctions. Thus, extralegal factors like appearance may bias legal decisions that place some youth at increased risk for more restrictive sanctioning. Our findings highlight the need for structured approaches to juvenile processing decisions that take youths’ appearance out of the picture.

Youth Justice in Hungary During the 20th and 21st Centuries

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miklós Lévay
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Precise Understanding

Juvenile justice systems are not static constructions but are highly dependent on the cultural, historical, and political environment. Therefore, analyses cannot provide a complete picture of them without explaining the effects of these to the development of the system. To encourage precise understanding on the main issues and institutions of the contemporary Hungarian juvenile justice system, this essay uses developmental and cultural perspectives, focusing on the introduction of formal law and legal practice. In this framework the author explains special characteristics of the Hungarian system, such as the traditional two-tiered justice system, the types and practice of deprivation of liberty of juveniles, the development of the consideration of culpability and maturity of delinquent children, and the limited overlap with child welfare. Beyond historical explanations, the author provides a contemporary evaluation of this development and points out the weakest areas with respect to international children’s rights.

Voices of the Youth: a South African youth perspective of juvenile justice

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-36
Author(s):  
Julie Dror Chadbourne
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
South African ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
New South ◽  
African Government ◽  
African Youth ◽  
First Time ◽  
Youth Perspective

It is in this spirit that the Voices of the Youth Project was created. At the dawn of a new South Africa, there will for the first time be a Juvenile Justice system. Child advocates across South Africa have been working in tandem with the South African government to create a workable Juvenile Justice system. In doing so, children's rights activists have sought input from advocates the world over, from philosophers, criminologists, and social workers, from teachers, economists, and volunteers, and, finally, from the children.

Race-ing Innocence

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-37
Author(s):  
Tera Eva Agyepong
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Cook County ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Great Migration

This chapter elucidates the community milieu in which the nascent juvenile justice system operated. Racialized notions of childhood, Progressive uplift, and the politics of child welfare primed black children to be marked as delinquents even before they formally stepped foot inside Cook County Juvenile Court. The vast majority of public and private agencies for poor, abused, neglected, or abandoned children excluded black children because of their race, even as they readily accepted white and European immigrant children. This dearth of institutional resources for black children was exacerbated by the Great Migration. Chicago’s black community adapted to these realities by doing their own “child-saving” and inserting themselves into a juvenile justice system that began to play a defining role in shaping the trajectory of many black children’s lives.

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