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Juvenile Court: The Legal Process As A Rehabilitative Tool, Bobbe Jean Ellis
Juvenile Court: The Legal Process As A Rehabilitative Tool, Bobbe Jean Ellis
Washington Law Review
The author's study, reported in this comment, had two objectives. First, it attempted to determine whether a juvenile's experience with the traditional sociological model or with the legal due process model is more likely to motivate him to feel positively toward the legal system. Second, this study attempted to measure the attitudes of the professionals in the juvenile system (judges, attorneys, and caseworkers) toward the two models. The results of the study, although not all were statistically significant, indicated that although the professionals favored the traditional sociological model, the use of the legal-due process model was more likely to result …