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Article V Returns Under The Interstate Compact On Juveniles, Adrienne Volenik

Law Faculty Publications

The Interstate Compact on Juveniles provides the means by which a juvenile escapee or absconder can be returned to his state of origin with only a minimum of difficulty. Article V of the compact, which covers this situation, provides that the person or authority from whose probation or parole supervision a delinquent youth has absconded or from whose institutional custody he has escaped can make a written request for his return to the appropriate court or executive authority of the state where the youth is allegedly located.

Juvenile Obscenity Statutes: A Proposal And Analysis, Jerold H. Israel, Rita Ann Burns

Articles

The article that follows is based largely upon a Study Report on juvenile obscenity statutes prepared for the Michigan Law Revision Commission. The objectives of the Report were (1) to analyze the various issues presented in drafting a juvenile obscenity provision, (2) to survey the treatment of those issues in statutes adopted by various states and statutes proposed by several distinguished commissions, and (3) to propose a comprehensive model statute that offers a choice of alternative provisions on key areas of controversy. Certain limitations placed upon the scope of the Report (and this article) should be noted. First, we were …

Criminal Law--Juvenile Delinquency--Contributing Survives Constitutional Attack: Confusion Or Certainty, Michael Frank Pezzulli

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Juvenile Law--Exclusive Original Jurisdiction Of Juvenile Cases In Juvenile Courts, James O. Wilson Jr.

Mercer Law Review

In J.W.A. v. State, the Supreme Court of Georgia laid to rest a jurisdictional problem that had plagued the Georgia juvenile system for almost a half of a century when the court held that exclusive original jurisdiction of non-capital juvenile cases is vested in the juvenile courts with concurrent jurisdiction of the superior courts becoming effective only when activated by a proper transfer from the juvenile courts.

The Runaways, Richard David Young

IUSTITIA

At the present stage of development, the varied literature on runaway children and adolescents provides little basis for firm conclusions. The apparent heterogeneity of runaways has yet to be fully realized in conceptual or research attempts, although efforts in that direction are beginning. There appears to be little utility or meaning in assigning runaway behavior solely to categories of delinquency or psychopathology. Such efforts have done little to clarify the meaning of running away or to define the important environmental factors and personality features involved in running away. To some extent their greatest impact has been on the restriction of …

An Inquiry Into The Association Between Respondents' Personal Characteristics And Juvenile Court Dispositions, Charles W. Thomas, W. Anthony Fitch

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Right To Reasons When Denied Parole, Dorothy C. Bernholz

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.

Book Review, Roberta Wright Botchwey

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pretrial Preparation Of Minor Drug Cases, 9 J. Marshall J. Prac. & Proc. 235 (1975), Frank Wesolowski Jr.

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Illinois Juvenile Court Act: Does It Protect The Child's Best Interests, 9 J. Marshall J. Prac. & Proc. 396 (1975), Gary Ravitz

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Juvenile Court And Emotional Neglect Of Children, James B. Stoetzer

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

A primary function of the Juvenile Court is to assist in the protection of children from abuse and neglect. Juvenile court acts, child abuse reporting statutes, and child protective services legislation have incorporated provisions dealing with physical abuse and physical neglect of children. Such legislation enables state intervention into family life for the protection of children exposed to harmful environments. Statutory definitions of abuse and neglect provide a basis on which the community, frequently through the juvenile court, may pass judgment on the existence of child neglect and offer services or coerce family members to accept them. A few states, …

A Guide To Pennsylvania Delinquency Law, Leonard Packel

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Book Review, Peter D. Garlock

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

The author reviews Thorns and Thistles: Juvenile Delinquents in the United States, 1825-1940.

Juvenile Delinquent And Unruly Proceedings In Ohio: Unconstitutional Adjudications, Patricia Simia Kleri

Cleveland State Law Review

This article will focus on the constitutional defects of juvenile court adjudications under Ohio juvenile law. The arguments presented, however, are equally applicable in other jurisdictions since every state has some type of legislation granting juvenile court jurisdiction over both criminals and noncriminal misconduct of children.

Juvenile Court And Arrest Records, Adrienne Volenik

Law Faculty Publications

Recognizing the near impossibility of changing societal views toward juvenile offenders, many legislators have at- tempted instead to combat the harmful effects of a delinquency adjudication by providing for concealment of juvenile records, on the grounds that such concealment will aid the child's reintegration into society.

Expungement Of Arrest Records, Adrienne Volenik

Law Faculty Publications

Contrary to the philosophy of the juvenile court, it is undoubtedly a rare occasion when a child benefits from his exposure to the juvenile court system. Even when a child is actually rehabilitated by the process, the invidious effects that flow from being labeled a "juvenile delinquent" may serve to negate any benefit that he may have received. Perhaps the most unjustifiable of all side effects is the stigma that attaches to a child who has been arrested and subsequently either released without prosecution or acquitted. In a society that espouses the idea that an individual is innocent until proven …

Whose Needy Children?, David L. Bazelon

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

As an appellate judge for twenty-five years, the author has been confronted daily with cases involving what we call "behavior problems." As a judge, he can tell you it is a distressing task to sift daily through the records detailing the wreckage of human lives. He does not speak only of criminal cases. He also refers to child abuse and neglect cases, welfare eligibility cases, civil commitment cases, and many others.

Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings In Ohio: Due Process And The Hearsay Dilemma, Sara E. Strattan

Cleveland State Law Review

This comment will explore the extent to which the exclusion of hearsay evidence in a delinquency proceeding is a practical reality in the Ohio system. In so doing, the possibilities for abuse will be highlighted and suggestions for their elimination will be made, all in the spirit of the Supreme Court's mandate to provide fundamental due process safeguards to this procedure.

Notice In Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings, Adrienne Volenik

Law Faculty Publications

Despite these suggestions, the problem of what constitutes adequate notice continues to plague juvenile courts. Furthermore, by suggesting two criminal and two civil cases as examples, the Court added the issue of whether a civil or a criminal standard for notice should be applied. Courts that have addressed this issue have reached different conclusions.

Child Neglect Proceedings-A New Focus, Ellen K. Thomas

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Interorganizational Conflict: The Case Of Police Youth Bureaus And The Juvenile Court, C. David Hollister, Joe Hudson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Police departments, juvenile courts, training schools, and a variety of welfare organizations together constitute the network of agencies formally instituted to deal with juvenile deviance.I Because each of the organizations has an interest in reducing deviance, it is sometimes assumed that they share the same goals and work closely and cooperatively with each other. The purpose of this paper is to report on an exploratory study of inter-organizational relations at one link in this network: relations between police youth bureaus and the juvenile court.

Book Review Of The Rights Of Children: Emergent Concepts In Law And Society; Beyond The Best Interest Of The Child; And Cases And Materials On Modern Juvenile Justice, W. Anthony Fitch

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Blood Transfusions And Elective Surgery: A Custodial Function Of An Ohio Juvenile Court, M. J. Zaremski

Cleveland State Law Review

Juvenile Court has traditionally been though of, within American jurisprudence, as an appendage of the state acting as parens patriae. This obligation dates back to the ancient role of the sovereign as protector of helpless children. An abundance of case law has con- strued and reinterpreted this doctrine, but none has significantly deviated from the general definition. Therefore, the description given in Black's Law Dictionary that parens patriae refers ". . to the sovereign power of guardianship over persons under disability . . . such as minors . . ." will suffice for the purposes of the ensuing discussion. These …

On The Voluntary Admission Of Minors, Louis Lessem

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The past several years have been witness to dramatic changes in both the theory and practice of civil commitment. In the law, this development has taken the form of increased concern for the protection of the personal liberties of the mentally ill while among members of the medical profession it has been experienced as a part of the process of opening up the back wards. Legislatures in many states have responded by revising their mental health statutes to establish more rigorous standards for commitment, periodic review of the status of committed patients, and better procedural safeguards throughout the commitment process. …

Juvenile Law- Double Jeopardy

University of Richmond Law Review

Both the United States Constitution' and the Constitution of Virginia recognize the right of an individual to be protected against successive prosecutions for the same crime. While the concept of double jeopardy is rooted in the English common law and early case law of the United States, it has been predominant in the criminal law, and has gained little acceptance in the area of juvenile law, which has been regarded as a civil proceeding.

Police Discretion With Respect To The Juvenile Offender, Department Of Public Safety, Multnomah County, Oregon, Muriel Bridges, Monty Merritt

Dissertations and Theses

This is an exploratory study which focuses on the types of information that deputies assigned to the Department of Public Safety, Multnomah County, Oregon, consider important when making a decision regarding the disposition of a juvenile offender.

This empirical study developed as a result of participant observation. The authors spent one year working with deputies as part of police-social worker teams. During the course of the year it became apparent that police use a considerable amount of discretion when determining the disposition of a juvenile offender.

The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate systematically:

1. the types of information …

Procedural Due Process In The Juvenile Courts Of West Virginia, Richard A. Warmuth

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of Cases And Materials On Modern Juvenile Justice, Thomas M. Cooley Ii

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of In Defense Of Youth, Thomas M. Cooley Ii

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of Our Children's Keepers, Thomas M. Cooley Ii

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.