Juvenile Status Offender: Hearing Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States S

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Excerpt from Juvenile Status Offender: Hearing Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session, June 25, 1977 In summary, I believe the status offender should be placed in the dependency or child in need of assistance category. The status offender should not be housed in secure facilities unless they repeatedly show by their action they cannot be held in anything less, and then the placement should be of short duration. The status offender should be retained within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. I would like to make one further comment that is slightly off the subject. Today we are discussing the current juvenile justice fad, status offenders. Yesterday it was diversion. Before that it was com munity services. Before that it was confidentiality of record. Earlier still it was due-process protections. All of these matters come forth and our literature is filled with the current fad at any given time, they are all important and proper subjects of legislative action. However, we can legislate on all these matters to meet the popular demands of the day and we can play games with semantics by rede fining delinquency as in need of supervision or change the names of reform schools to training schools to industrial schools without making any basic change in the treatment of the children involved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.