Juvenile Justice in Transition - An Industry Note (From From Children to Citizens, V 2 - The Role of the Juvenile Court, P 308-327, 1987, Francis X Hartmann, ed. - See NCJ-106014)

• NCJ Number: 106028
• Author(s): M W Oshima; F X Hartmann
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 20 pages
• Sale Source: Springer-Verlag
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper adopts the strategy of the industry note to examine the enterprise, products, markets, operational milieu, and future of the juvenile justice enterprise (courts and corrections).

Abstract

Abused and neglected children, status offenders, and criminal offenders are the raw materials of the enterprise. Factors of production include financial resources and the coercive power of the State. The juvenile justice system is one of the cooperating companies that deal with youth in need of protection, supervision, and rehabilitation. The production process consists of intake and classification, adjudication, and disposition. The juvenile courts and corrections work in competition with social service agencies and community-based treatment. Given lukewarm public support and the apparent weaknesses of this competition, the bankruptcy of the juvenile justice system is not imminent. However, its future viability will depend on how legislators and other decisionmakers address the issues of personnel training, staffing levels, funding, accounting, and others. 7 endnotes and 24 references.