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Community Notification And The Perils Of Mandatory Juvenile Sex Offender Registration: The Dangers Faced By Children And Their Families, Joanna S. Markman

Joanna S. Markman

The impetus for the creation of a separate juvenile justice system, as will be explained below, was the acknowledgment that children are not adults, and as such, do not have the capacity for rationale thoughts as do adults. Moreover, the juvenile justice system was derived to create a structure whereby rehabilitation would be the ultimate objective in devising juvenile punishment or, as it is referred to in the language of juvenile law, disposition.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to garner sympathy for the plight of the sexual offender. This Article is not designed to do so. Moreover, while it …