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The Pennsylvania Prison Society was founded in 1787 to advocate for humane prison reform and help prisoners reenter society successfully. Over the past 225 years, the organization has pioneered many reentry programs and services, including prison visitation, counseling, advocacy for voting and other civil rights, job training, and support for released individuals. The Society continues to partner with other nonprofits to provide services that help reduce recidivism and promote justice.
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It found that the compromise between punishment and healing for juvenile offenders is a dilemma that the United States have to face since the inception of its judicial system. After declaring self-rule from Britain, the United States modeled its lawful system after the one well-known United Kingdom. It meant that, in the eyes of the law, little difference was made between children and adults. Kids as could be tried as adults if warranted by their crime. At the end of 18th century, psychologists and sociologists began to recognize the emerging notion of adolescence as a developmentally different era of life. This is the idea of managing adolescent offender outer of the adult court became more widely accepted but keeping in line with the idea that juvenile delinquent requires special care and treatment. In this case, the society had a role to play in the prevention of Juvenile delinquency that opened the first facility for disturbed youth in 1825. New York House of Refuge, on the other hand, was created as an option for juveniles who had committed an illegal act that would have likely earned them time in jail. But in 1899, what came into existence is the development of first juvenile court in the United States came into existence in Cook County, Illinois. The rationale that was behind the forming a separate justice system for youths. Its evident that this was based on the British set of guidelines for parens patriae, which gives a State meaning as a parent. What is provided by Sickmund and Snyder is that the set of instructions was to give an interpretation with a mean because children were not of full legal capacity, the state had the inborn power and accountability to protect children whose natural parents were not providing suitable care or supervision. The court system viewed insufficient parenting as part of the problem with delinquent youth and reasoned that, with proper intervention, troubled juveniles could be put back on the path towards becoming law-abiding, productive members of their communities.
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PERSPECTIVES
Juveniles in Court
Matthew F. Soulier, MD, and Charles L. Scott, MD
Nineteenth-century American reformers were concerned about the influence of immaturity and
development in juvenile offenses. They responded to their delinquent youths through the creation
of juvenile courts. This early American juvenile justice system sought to treat children as different
from adults and to rehabilitate wayward youths through the state’s assumption of a parental role.
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in assisting juvenile courts. (HARV REV PSYCHIATRY 2010;18:317–325.)
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HISTORY OF JUVENILE LAW
Adults have always made the laws that define order and
justice in societies, but such laws have historically varied
in their assignment of criminal culpability to juveniles and
adults. For example, in the eighteenth century under En-
glish common law, children younger than 7 years were con-
From the Division of Psychiatry and the Law, University of Califor-
nia, Davis Campus, Sacramento, CA.
Original manuscript received 19 November 2009; revised
manuscript received 28 May 2010, accepted for publication 28 July
2010.
Correspondence: Matthew F. Soulier, MD, UC Davis, Psychiatry and
Law, 2230 Stockton Blvd., 2nd Fl., Sacramento, CA 95817. Email:
[email protected]
©c 2010 President and Fellows of Harvard College
DOI: 10.3109/10673229.2010.527518
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stand the consequences of their actions. Without the crim-
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The first specialized juvenile court in the United States was created on July 1, 1899, as part of an Illinois legislative act
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Some of the historical events that have had an impact on the contemporary juvenile justice network in the United States, I can say starting off has to be the age differential for punishment. What I mean by that is, while reading some of the historical events I came across this portion; “there were no corporal punishment prior to puberty, which was considered to be the age of 12 years for females and 13 years for males. No capital punishment was to be imposed for those under 20 years of age, and that children under the age of 17 years were typically exempt from the death penalty (Bernard,1992)”.
Another historical event that had such an impact would be dealing with Chancery courts, under the guidance of the king’s chancellor, were created to consider petitions of those who were in need of special aid or intervention, such as women and children left in need of protection and aid by reason of divorce, death of a spouse, or abandonment, and to grant relief to such persons. Through the chancery courts, the king exercised the right of parens patriae (“parent of the country”) by enabling these courts to act in loco parentis (“in the place of parents”) to provide necessary services for the benefit of women and children (Bynum & Thompson, 1992).
Basically, stating that, “the king, as ruler of his country, was to assume responsibility for all of those under his rule, to provide parental care for children who had no parents, and to assist women who required aid for any of the reasons just mentioned. Although chancery courts did not normally deal with youthful offenders, they did deal with dependent or neglected children, as do juvenile courts in the United States today”.
My opinion on both are pretty much upside down, because these juveniles are getting more and more out of hand and I feel as if they are doing so not just because lack of attention from home, parents etc. they come up with but just foolishness knowing that they won’t necessarily get punished for it. But times have changed are going to continue to change just because of that. I was reading on the case Roper v. Simmons. This case was very interesting to me because teens are still committing these types of crimes, which I call pre-meditated. I wouldn’t want my love one away from me, but committing such crime, consequences are needed to be set in place. Now as far as the time served giving that would be difficult for me to decide, only because you may NEVER know what a person is committing the crime for. They can tell you one thing and mean another. Long term effects will result in continuous increase in prison population, after while the juvenile courts/jail will no longer be needed because it’s a continuous thing with the crimes being done. Juveniles stealing cars, robbing and killing-the EXACT thing they see us adults doing and seeing the punishments being given and thinking oh that’s nothing I can serve that. It’s like it’s a trend now.
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Juveniles Tried as Adults
Juveniles Tried as Adults
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Juveniles Tried as Adults
It found that the compromise between punishment and healing for juvenile offenders is a dilemma that the United States have to face since the inception of its judicial system. After declaring self-rule from Britain, the United States modeled its lawful system after the one well-known United Kingdom. It meant that, in the eyes of the law, little difference was made between children and adults. Kids as could be tried as adults if warranted by their crime. At the end of 18th century, psychologists and sociologists began to recognize the emerging notion of adolescence as a developmentally different era of life. This is the idea of managing adolescent offender outer of the adult court became more widely accepted but keeping in line with the idea that juvenile delinquent requires special care and treatment. In this case, the society had a role to play in the prevention of Juvenile delinquency that opened the first facility for disturbed youth in 1825. New York House of Refuge, on the other hand, was created as an option for juveniles who had committed an illegal act that would have likely earned them time in jail. But in 1899, what came into existence is the development of first juvenile court in the United States came into existence in Cook County, Illinois. The rationale that was behind the forming a separate justice system for youths. Its evident that this was based on the British set of guidelines for parens patriae, which gives a State meaning as a parent. What is provided by Sickmund and Snyder is that the set of instructions was to give an interpretation with a mean because children were not of full legal capacity, the state had the inborn power and accountability to protect children whose natural parents were not providing suitable care or supervision. The court system viewed insufficient parenting as part of the problem with delinquent youth and reasoned that, with proper intervention, troubled juveniles could be put back on the path towards becoming law-abiding, productive members of their communities.
In 1899 United States of America, made legal history when the world's first juvenile court opened in Chicago. The court was founded on two fundamental principles. First, juveniles lack the maturity to take responsibility for their actions the way adults could. Secondly, because, their personality was not yet fully developed, what could be noted is that they could receive proper corrective measures more successfully than adult criminals. More than a century later, these principles remain the benchmarks of juvenile justice in the United States.
A rising number of crimes committed by the kids are being subjected to trial as adults much the way they might have been before the beginning of juvenile courts. This stems from public outra ...
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PERSPECTIVESJuveniles in CourtMatthew F. Soulier, MD, .docx
PERSPECTIVES
Juveniles in Court
Matthew F. Soulier, MD, and Charles L. Scott, MD
Nineteenth-century American reformers were concerned about the influence of immaturity and
development in juvenile offenses. They responded to their delinquent youths through the creation
of juvenile courts. This early American juvenile justice system sought to treat children as different
from adults and to rehabilitate wayward youths through the state’s assumption of a parental role.
Although these rehabilitative goals were never fully realized, the field of American child psychiatry
was spawned from these efforts on behalf of delinquent youths. Early child psychiatrists began
by caring for juvenile offenders. The function of a child psychiatrist with juvenile delinquents
expanded beyond strictly rehabilitation, however, as juvenile courts evolved to resemble criminal
adult courts—due to landmark Supreme Court decisions and also juvenile legislation between 1966
and 1975. In response to dramatically increased juvenile violence and delinquency rates in the 1980s,
juvenile justice became more retributional, and society was forced to confront issues such as capital
punishment for juveniles, their transfer to adult courts, and their competency to stand trial. In the
modern juvenile court, child psychiatrists are often asked to participate in the consideration of such
issues because of their expertise in development. In that context we review the role of psychiatrists
in assisting juvenile courts. (HARV REV PSYCHIATRY 2010;18:317–325.)
Keywords: child psychiatry, courts, forensic psychiatry, juveniles
HISTORY OF JUVENILE LAW
Adults have always made the laws that define order and
justice in societies, but such laws have historically varied
in their assignment of criminal culpability to juveniles and
adults. For example, in the eighteenth century under En-
glish common law, children younger than 7 years were con-
From the Division of Psychiatry and the Law, University of Califor-
nia, Davis Campus, Sacramento, CA.
Original manuscript received 19 November 2009; revised
manuscript received 28 May 2010, accepted for publication 28 July
2010.
Correspondence: Matthew F. Soulier, MD, UC Davis, Psychiatry and
Law, 2230 Stockton Blvd., 2nd Fl., Sacramento, CA 95817. Email:
[email protected]
©c 2010 President and Fellows of Harvard College
DOI: 10.3109/10673229.2010.527518
sidered lacking the cognitive capacity to know and under-
stand the consequences of their actions. Without the crim-
inal intent, or mens rea, such immature children were not
capable of committing a crime. Children between 7 and 14
were similarly presumed to lack this capacity unless the
prosecutor could prove that the child defendants knew and
understood the consequences of their acts. Persons older
than 14 were considered adults, subject to the full weight of
the law and punishment, including death if so determined.1
This “rule of sevens” was based on developmental consider-
ations and a moral d ...
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The first specialized juvenile court in the United States was created on July 1, 1899, as part of an Illinois legislative act
establishing the juvenile court division of the circuit court for Cook County.2 The 1899 Illinois legislation codified a more
progressive way to treat wayward youth: instead of showing them the error of their ways by punishing them, the state
would help youth correct their course and become productive, law-abiding citizens. Because the goal of the newly-created
system focused on rehabilitation and not just punishment, the state law required only cursory legal proceedings that placed
judicial economy and youth rehabilitation before due process.3 There was no role for defense attorneys—and little role for
prosecutors—in that system.
Social workers and behavioral scientists advised the court on the most appropriate disposition of the cases. For the first time,
detained youth were separated from adult offenders and placed in training and industrial schools, as well as in private foster
homes and institutions.4 This type of specialized juvenile court was quickly duplicated in the larger cities of the East and
Midwest, so that by 1925, some form of juvenile court existed in all but two states.5
Until the 1960s, constitutional challenges to juvenile court practices and procedures were consistently overruled. Children
were denied the rights to counsel, public adjudications, and jury adjudications. They did not have any immunity against
self-incrimination. They could be convicted on hearsay testimony.6 They could also be convicted by only a preponderance
of the evidence. Previous case law found that juvenile proceedings were civil in nature and that their purpose was to reha-
bilitate rather than punish.7 Research on the juvenile justice system had begun to show that juvenile court judges often lacked
legal training;8 that probation officers were undertrained and that their heavy caseloads often prohibited meaningful social
intervention; that children were still regularly housed in adult facilities; and that juvenile correctional institutions were often,
in reality, overcrowded and violent juvenile prisons serving as little more than breeding grounds for further criminal activity.
In 1963, the United States Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel requires that indigent adults
charged with a felony offense be appointed an attorney at public expense. In that seminal case, Gideon v. Wainwright,9 a
unanimous court wrote that any person too poor to hire a lawyer cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided
for him, explaining that “lawyers in criminal court are necessities, not luxuries.”10 In the wake of Gideon, in a series of cases
starting in 1966, the Supreme Court extended this and other bedrock elements of due process to youth facing delinquency
proceedings. Arguably the most important of these cases, In re Gault,11 held that juveniles facing delinquency pro ...
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Some of the historical events that have had an impact on the contemporary juvenile justice network in the United States, I can say starting off has to be the age differential for punishment. What I mean by that is, while reading some of the historical events I came across this portion; “there were no corporal punishment prior to puberty, which was considered to be the age of 12 years for females and 13 years for males. No capital punishment was to be imposed for those under 20 years of age, and that children under the age of 17 years were typically exempt from the death penalty (Bernard,1992)”.
Another historical event that had such an impact would be dealing with Chancery courts, under the guidance of the king’s chancellor, were created to consider petitions of those who were in need of special aid or intervention, such as women and children left in need of protection and aid by reason of divorce, death of a spouse, or abandonment, and to grant relief to such persons. Through the chancery courts, the king exercised the right of parens patriae (“parent of the country”) by enabling these courts to act in loco parentis (“in the place of parents”) to provide necessary services for the benefit of women and children (Bynum & Thompson, 1992).
Basically, stating that, “the king, as ruler of his country, was to assume responsibility for all of those under his rule, to provide parental care for children who had no parents, and to assist women who required aid for any of the reasons just mentioned. Although chancery courts did not normally deal with youthful offenders, they did deal with dependent or neglected children, as do juvenile courts in the United States today”.
My opinion on both are pretty much upside down, because these juveniles are getting more and more out of hand and I feel as if they are doing so not just because lack of attention from home, parents etc. they come up with but just foolishness knowing that they won’t necessarily get punished for it. But times have changed are going to continue to change just because of that. I was reading on the case Roper v. Simmons. This case was very interesting to me because teens are still committing these types of crimes, which I call pre-meditated. I wouldn’t want my love one away from me, but committing such crime, consequences are needed to be set in place. Now as far as the time served giving that would be difficult for me to decide, only because you may NEVER know what a person is committing the crime for. They can tell you one thing and mean another. Long term effects will result in continuous increase in prison population, after while the juvenile courts/jail will no longer be needed because it’s a continuous thing with the crimes being done. Juveniles stealing cars, robbing and killing-the EXACT thing they see us adults doing and seeing the punishments being given and thinking oh that’s nothing I can serve that. It’s like it’s a trend now.
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