CRM/LAW C109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Juvenile Court, Parens Patriae, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
28 Jun 2016
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Several events led to reforms and nourished the eventual develop of the jjs. Urbanization and industrialization generated the belief that certain segments of the population (youth in urban areas, immigrants) were susceptible to the influences of their decaying environments. Settlement houses-shelters or non secure residential facilities for vagrant children. Influenced state legislatures to enact laws giving courts power to commit children who were runaways or criminal offender to specialized institutions. Black child savers, fought to overcome racial discrimination facing black kids. A facility developed by the child savers to protect potential criminal youths by taking them off the street and providing a family-like environment. Opened in 1825 ad within the first decade had 1,678 inmates, Scholars believe that the reformers applied the concept of parens patriae for their own purpose, including the continuance of middle and upper class values and the furtherance of a child labor system consisting of marginal and lower-class skilled workers.
