Juvenile Justice in Victorian Scotland

Author(s):  
Christine Kelly

This book explores the history of juvenile justice and the day industrial school movement in 19th-century Scotland. How did Scotland’s criminal justice system respond to marginalised street children who found themselves on the wrong side of the law, often for simple vagrancy or other minor offences? The book examines the historical criminalisation of Scotland’s Victorian children, as well as revealing the history and early success of the Scottish day industrial school movement - a philanthropic response to juvenile offending hailed as 'magic' in Charles Dickens’s Household Words. With case studies ranging from police courts to the High Court of Justiciary, the book offers a lively account of the way children experienced Scotland’s early juvenile justice system.

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Lynn Atkinson

The first section of the paper makes some observations about young people, crime and the police, and the particular vulnerability of Aboriginal youth coming to the attention of the police. Two issues, the maintenance of public order and juvenile offending, provide the framework for the discussion here. The second section looks at the nexus between the pre-trial conference - a recent innovation in the Children's Court in Perth - police prosecutors, and Aboriginal youth.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1416
Author(s):  
Sedat Kula

<p>Turkish juvenile justice system constitutes special and important place in justice system due to its focal point to the juvenile and juvenile rights. As it is in the world, the main purpose of the juvenile justice system in Turkey is not only to handle the judicial process, but also to get the juveniles out of the system at lower costs as possible and to make them continue their lives without having any problems. Besides the policies and implications carried out in the juvenile justice system in the name of struggling with juvenile delinquency, this study emphasizes the importance of crime prevention strategies out of the juvenile justice system. Within this frame, it is emphasized the necessity of all related institutions working together in a harmony after analyzing the Turkish juvenile justice system. Another important point that this study tries to emphasize is that policies in the scope of the juvenile justice system were not created based on the idea of preventing crime committing again, rather based on punishment, compensation, and public protection. Therefore, it is recommended to review the policies and to emphasize the necessity of functional and integrated juvenile justice system.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Özet</strong></p><p>Odak noktasında çocuk ve çocuk haklarının olması sebebiyle Türk Çocuk Adalet Sistemi (TÇAS), adalet sisteminin çok özel ve önemli bir alanını oluşturmaktadır. Tüm dünyada olduğu gibi Türkiye’de de çocuk ceza adalet sisteminin temel amacı sadece çocuğun içinde bulunduğu adli durumla ilgili adil bir işlem tesis etmek değil aynı zamanda çocuğun bu zorlayıcı süreçten en az zararla çıkmasını sağlamak ve yetişkin bir birey olarak olabildiğince sorunsuz hayatlarına devam etmelerini sağlamaktır. Çocuk suçluluğu ile daha etkin mücadele edilmesi noktasında ceza adalet sistemi içerisindeki politika ve uygulamaların yanı sıra bu sistemin dışında ki suç önleme stratejilerinin de mutlaka ele alınması gerektiğinden haraketle bu çalışmada Türk çocuk ceza adalet sistemi üzerinde kapsamlı bir analiz yapılarak Türk çocuk adalet sisteminde yer alan tüm kurum ve kuruluşların uyum ve eşgüdümlü şekilde çalışması gerektiği üzerinde durulmaktadır. Üzerinde durulan diğer önemli bir husus ta çocuk ceza adalet sistemi içerisinde üretilen politikaların suçun tekrarının önlenmesine yönelik esaslı bir düşünce tarzından ziyade genelde cezalandırma, geleneksel caydırıcılık, etkisiz hale getirme, iyileştirme, kamunun korunması ve zararın tazmini temeline dayanmakta olduğu tezinden hareketle bu konudaki politikaların gözden geçirilerek işlevsel ve bütüncül bir sistemin gerekliliğini ortaya koymaktır.</p>


Author(s):  
Emily S. Fisher ◽  
Kelly S. Kennedy

This chapter provides an overview of the juvenile justice system, as well as descriptions of alternative education settings, and offers suggestions for counselors who work with students who are involved with that system. Students who are involved with the juvenile justice system face a number of risks that impact them at school, including trauma, comorbid psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, learning disabilities, and underachievement. Counselors working with this group of students need to take time to establish effective rapport and develop a treatment plan that takes into account the complexities of these students’ lives. Specific counseling strategies discussed include solution-focused brief therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy dialectical behavior therapy motivational interviewing (MI), multisystemic therapy and group counseling.


Author(s):  
Tom R. Tyler ◽  
Rick Trinkner

Chapter 9 discusses legal socialization within the juvenile justice system. Adolescence is a developmental period during which many young people have contact with legal authorities, primarily the police. These contacts involve high levels of discretion for law enforcement, and studies show the manner in which that discretion is exercised has strong consequences for the subsequent orientations that adolescents have toward the law as well as their later law-related behavior. In particular, adolescents react to how fairly the authorities treat them. Juvenile justice is a particularly contentious area of policy with many punitive practices advocated in spite of evidence that they do not build legitimacy or reduce crime. On the other hand, experiencing justice is shown to promote legitimacy and lower offending.


Author(s):  
Tera Eva Agyepong

This chapter describes the arc of the book’s narrative and includes a brief description of each chapter. The overarching argument—that notions of race, childhood, and rehabilitation intersected with the new apparatus of Cook County Juvenile Justice System, and shaped the evolution of juvenile justice in Illinois—is introduced with a case study about a poor migrant boy. His experience foreshadowed the fate of many African American children in Chicago’s juvenile justice system.


Author(s):  
Angela Irvine ◽  
Aisha Canfield ◽  
Jessica Roa

LGBTQ youth’s involvement with the juvenile justice system occurs in the context of family conflict, parental rejection of homosexuality, trauma, and hostility at school and in the community. As they run away from abuse, LGBTQ youth are more likely to commit survival crimes and get arrested for offenses related to homelessness. This chapter focuses on the experiences of lesbian, bisexual, queer, and gender-nonconforming girls in juvenile justice settings and examines how biases about gender and sexual orientation affect court decisions and correctional practices. Lack of awareness and training about LGBTQ issues compounds the harmful effects of homophobia, transphobia, and racism and adversely impacts lesbian, queer, and gender-nonconforming girls’ rights to due process, as well as their access to appropriate health care services. This chapter makes recommendations for LGBTQ-affirming practices in juvenile justice settings.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Cox ◽  
Peter Kochol ◽  
Jennifer Hedlund

Despite an abundance of research on serious and violent juvenile offenders, few studies have linked juvenile offending career categories to juvenile court risk assessments and future offending. This study uses juvenile court referrals and assessment data to replicate earlier categorizations of serious, violent, and chronic offenders; to examine risk and protective score differences across these categories; and to assess whether risk and protective score constructs differentially predict adult criminality across these offender categories. Based on a sample of 9,859 juvenile offenders who aged out of Connecticut’s juvenile justice system between 2005 and 2009, we found that (1) our categorization of juvenile career types mirrored earlier work, (2) comparing risk and protective factors across and within juvenile career types identified distinct patterns, and (3) the juvenile risk and protective assessment subscales were not predictive of adult arrests for chronic offenders but were predictive for nonchronic juvenile career types.


Author(s):  
Katherine Irwin ◽  
Karen Umemoto

The youth’s narratives can add depth to many literatures, and chapter one reviews some of the core assumptions within the fields of youth violence, critical youth studies, and punishment in the juvenile justice system and schools. Chapter one also includes a brief review of the colonial history of Hawai‘i.


2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharyn Graham Davies ◽  
Jazz Robson

Two significant events occurred in Indonesia in 2014 in relation to children in conflict with the law. First, Indonesia’s Law No. 11/2012 on the Juvenile Criminal Justice System came into effect on 30 July, with the first minors being tried on 12 August 2014. Second, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (uncrc) presented its concluding observations to Indonesia’s periodic report. It is timely to reflect on the progress Indonesia is making in respect to children in conflict with the law. In providing the first systematic analysis of Indonesia’s juvenile justice system, we trace the history of juvenile justice in Indonesia, outlining both international and national conventions and laws applicable to Indonesia. We assess judicial and pragmatic progress and highlight areas of continuing concern regarding children in conflict with the law in Indonesia. We conclude that despite Indonesia becoming an early signatory to the un Convention on the Rights of the Child (uncrc) and the nation’s subsequent ratification of child-friendly judicial policies, Indonesia has failed to follow through on its various commitments. This failure demonstrates not only the difficulties of effecting change in a super-diverse country with systemic corruption and poverty, but suggests a concern in Indonesia for presenting a positive public image above substantively improving the lives of children in conflict with the law. We argue that while Indonesia’s law changes are positive, adequate resources must be allocated to ensure successful implementation. We conclude by suggesting that indigenous restorative justice practices can be utilised to strengthen Indonesia’s juvenile justice system.


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