01:202:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Preventive Detention, Reform School, Preliminary Hearing

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: 01:202:201
• Professor: Brian Donnelly

Document Summary

Delinquency: juvenile actions or conduct in violation of criminal law, juvenile status offenses, and other juvenile status offenses, and other juvenile misbehavior. Before the modern era, children who committed crimes in the western world received no preferential treatment. They were adjudicated and punished alongside adults. Early philosophy in dealing with juveniles derived from an ancient roman principle called patria potesta control over them. Children were members of the family, but the father had absolute. Parens patriae: a common law principle that allows the state to assume a parental role and to take custody of a child when he/she becomes a delinquent. By the end of the 18th century, the enlightenment emphasized human potential. By the middle of the 19th century, houses of refuge were developed to save children from lives of crime and poverty. In 1899, codification of illinois juvenile law became the model for juvenile court statutes throughout the nation. The illinois juvenile court act created a juvenile court.