From Children to Citizens: Volume I: The Mandate for Juvenile Justice
Dec 2012 · Springer Science & Business Media
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199
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From the preface: "History has dealt the juvenile court (and, more broadly, the juvenile justice system) a cruel blow. What began as a promising social experiment has disappointed nearly everyone... Inevitably, disillusionment has weakened the mandate of the juvenile justice system. Conflicts in philosophy, once held at bay by general enthusiasm for the enterprise, have now surfaced with great urgency. What, in fact, is the purpose of the juvenile justice system? Is it to protect the community from youth crime, or to help children grow up? Is it primarily a court dominated by concerns for justice? Or, is it more fundamentally a social service agency concerned with structuring the environments of children? Is the court an independent institution that stands apart from the community and administers justice in a fair and impartial way? Or, is the court an agent of the community in the sense that it establishes norms of conduct and draws both public and private agencies to the tasks of socializing children?"
About the author
George Lee Kelling was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 21, 1935. He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from St. Olaf College, a master's degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a doctorate in social welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He worked as a probation officer and ran a residential-care program for troubled youth before being hired in 1972 as a consultant to the National Police Foundation, a research and advocacy group, to evaluate how best to deploy officers. In 1982, Kelling and James Q. Wilson wrote an article entitled Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety for The Atlantic magazine. The premise of the article was that even one broken window in a community can signal that no one cares and that this kind of neglect can lead to disorder and crime. Kelling and his wife Catherine M. Coles wrote the book Fixing Broken Windows, which was published in 1996. He died from complications of cancer on May 15, 2019 at the age of 83.
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