Social control has been a central concept in sociological discussions of law for the past century, the juvenile justice system as a form of social control is no exception. Juvenile justice has a rich history in British Common Law, but as a separate entity in the US, its history is relatively short but no less important. What began as a movement to separate youths from adults to shield them from “contamination of incorrigible adults”, appears to have become another way of legal segregation and control of the underclass, impoverished, minority youths living in disorganized neighborhoods.
In Donald Black’s The Behavior of Law, Black maintains that law is the governments’ way of attaining social control, and law is “the normative life of a state …show more content…
The philosophy of separating children from adults in regard to deviant behavior dates back as far as the 1600s and British “Equity Courts”. In Equity courts, and the principle of “Parens Patriae”, or the power of the state, enabled the court to act in lieu of children whose parents were inept at their capabilities to “train” their children. During the Progressive Era, the Child-Saving movement emerged consisting of women who wanted to save children. Noteworthy child savers include Jane Addams, Lucy Flower, and Julie Lathrop. Many early child savers were early social workers. These women hoped to use social science and behavioral insights to treat youth in a separate system that fit the Progressive Era philosophy and stance on …show more content…
Accoridng to Bclaks theory, certain factors predict which cases will be dealt with informally and which will end up in the system. Children from homeogeouns neighborhoods, if cases even get to the point of being in the system, are likely to be dealt more lenient sentecenes, than black children form inner city hetergenous neighbhroods who are more likely to be snet topre-diposotialal detention and residential out of home aplcement as a disposition.
There are many critiques regarding the juvenile justice system. The context and underlying conditions are importuning in understanding legislative and system development. With the
In 1967, there was a nationwide change to create programs designed to divert youths away from the juvenile court as it was viewed as an extension to the adult criminal court and carried with it stigma and negative association. What was once considered
Donald Black (1976) defines deviant behavior as “conduct that is subject to social control”. “In other words, social control defines what it is deviant. The juvenile justice system is viewed as a form of social control for juvenile delinquents, but it is used as social control or a second-class criminal justice system? The dealings of children in a court separate from
In Donald Black’s The Behavior of Law, Black maintains that law is the governments’ way of attaining social control, and law is “the normative life of a state …show more content…
The philosophy of separating children from adults in regard to deviant behavior dates back as far as the 1600s and British “Equity Courts”. In Equity courts, and the principle of “Parens Patriae”, or the power of the state, enabled the court to act in lieu of children whose parents were inept at their capabilities to “train” their children. During the Progressive Era, the Child-Saving movement emerged consisting of women who wanted to save children. Noteworthy child savers include Jane Addams, Lucy Flower, and Julie Lathrop. Many early child savers were early social workers. These women hoped to use social science and behavioral insights to treat youth in a separate system that fit the Progressive Era philosophy and stance on …show more content…
Accoridng to Bclaks theory, certain factors predict which cases will be dealt with informally and which will end up in the system. Children from homeogeouns neighborhoods, if cases even get to the point of being in the system, are likely to be dealt more lenient sentecenes, than black children form inner city hetergenous neighbhroods who are more likely to be snet topre-diposotialal detention and residential out of home aplcement as a disposition.
There are many critiques regarding the juvenile justice system. The context and underlying conditions are importuning in understanding legislative and system development. With the
In 1967, there was a nationwide change to create programs designed to divert youths away from the juvenile court as it was viewed as an extension to the adult criminal court and carried with it stigma and negative association. What was once considered
Donald Black (1976) defines deviant behavior as “conduct that is subject to social control”. “In other words, social control defines what it is deviant. The juvenile justice system is viewed as a form of social control for juvenile delinquents, but it is used as social control or a second-class criminal justice system? The dealings of children in a court separate from