During a time, many things were different, in the beginning, there were no rights for offenders, and children who we would called juveniles were tried as an adult and were executed or served time with inmates older than them. Since then the juvenile courts were built specifically for minors, judges can act as “loco parentis” (Juvenile Justice System) meaning they act in place of the parents, they make decisions based on what they think is best. Since then a lot has changed, in the textbook “The Juvenile Justice System”, the chapter gave a timeline of the major events in juvenile justice, for instance in the begging of nineteen hundred a juvenile court was established in Denver, nineteen seventy-seven the Juvenile Justice Amendment of Nineteen
