Daniel Macallair, Executive Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a practitioner-in-residence at San Francisco State University (SFSU)'s Department of Criminal Justice Studies. These slides are from his Intervention Policies in Juvenile Justice course materials.
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1. The Evolution of the State Role in the Treatment of Children
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The Evolution of Juvenile Justice
from Antiquity to the late Middle Ages
The origins of parens patriae and
institutional care
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(paa-wrens pat-tree-eye)
Latin for "father of his country,"
the term for the doctrine that
the king (or the government) is
the ultimate guardian of all
people, especially children.
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In Loco Parentis (in place of the parents)
When the state or its
designated agent is
assigned the
responsibility to provide
care and protection for
children that is the
equivalent to that of the
natural parent
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Children and the State in the Ancient World
โข Designed to prevent strong from
injuring the weak
โข Defined crimes and set punishments
โข Established a father as head of
family unit
โข Fatherโs role strictly enforced through
power of the state
โข Provided for adoption of children
โข Misconduct by child outside family
unit subject to same punishments as
adult
The Hammurabi
Code
1752 BC
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Children under Early Roman Law
Doctrine of Patria
Potestas continued
tradition of fatherโs
absolute control over
family matters
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Unwanted Children in Ancient Rome
Infanticide through
exposure.
In Rome a column near
the Velebrum, where
Romulus and Remus
were abandoned and
then saved by a she
wolf, became the
traditional spot for
leaving unwanted
children.
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Assignment of Guardianship and the
Emergence of State Care Under Roman Law
Earliest form of institutionalized state policy to
protect orphaned children of Roman citizens
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Three Types of Guardianship established
under Roman Law
โข Tutela Legitima: guardianship
fell to the senior surviving male
relative
โข Tutela Testamentaria:
Guardianship designated by
the natural father prior to his
death
โข Tutelia Atiliana: Guardianship
assigned by government
officials (praetor urbanus)
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Guardianship under Roman Law
Focused on protecting childrenโs
property rights
Recognized the primacy of the male
in family matters
Extended special protections to
Roman born children especially of
high social status
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Evolution of Roman Law and the Protection of Children under
Byzantine State (500 AD to 1453)
โข Outlawed exposure in 541 by
classifying the act as murder
โข Established network of state
and church run orphanages
โข Orphanotropheion in
Constantinople stood for a
1000 years
โข Increased laws protecting
property rights of children
placed in guardianship
โข Expanded practice of adoption
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Roman Law and the Juvenile
Delinquent
Assigning criminal
responsibility
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mens rea: the Latin term for "guilty mindโ
โthe act does not make a
person guilty unless the
mind be also guilty".
actus non facit reum nisi mens sit
rea
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CHILDREN AND CRIMINAL
RESPONSIBILITY IN ANCIENT ROME
UNDER AGE 7- NO
RESPONSIBILITY
8 TO PUBERTY โ SOME
RESPONSIBILITY
PUBERTY TO 25 โ
RESPONSIBILITY WITH AGE
CONSIDERATIONS
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Middle Ages: Orphans and the Evolution of State Responsibility
and Institutional Care (400 โ 1500 AD)
The Role of the Christian Church
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Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
Hospital of the Innocents ( Established 1411)
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The Foundling Wheel
Foundling wheel
at the Ospedale
degli Innocenti
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Growth of Parens Patriae in the Late Middle Ages (1300-
1500)
Magna Carta 1215 โ re-
established the role of
the state in ensuring the
protection of orphaned
children and their
property through the
appointment of
guardians
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CHANCERY COURTS:
An legal body that was established in
England during the Middle Ages to
carry out various legal, executive and
legislative functions including the care
and treatment of orphaned children
and administering their estates.
Represented the formal acceptance of
the expanding state role in child
welfare.
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Growth of Parens Patriae in the Late Middle
Ages
โข 1500 Chancery Court โ expanded right
of the English king to assign
guardianship over orphaned children
โข 1562 English Parliament passes the
Statute of Artificers allowing
government to involuntarily separate
children from pauper parents
โข 1601 English Poor Law Act allows
government to place poor children in
bondage to local residents as
apprentices
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English Poor Laws and the Growth of
Institutional Care
Poor Houses Work Houses
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Children and Criminal Responsibility in the
Middle Ages
โข One to Seven = no criminal responsibility
โข Eight to Puberty = limited criminal responsibility
โข 14 and over = criminal responsibility
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The Evolution of Institutions for the Reformation of Criminal
Youth
1703: Hospice San Michele
established by Pope Clement XI
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Hospice San Michele
โข Congregate work station for
offenders
โข Solitary confinement for
incorrigible
โข Enforced silenced
โข Wearing of hoods
โIt is insufficient to restrain the
wicked by punishment unless you
render them virtuous by
corrective disciplineโ