A historic event that helped shape juvenile policing in the united state
The juvenile court was started in Illinois in 1899 as a court of appeal more than a century ago. It provided the unique rules and procedures for dealing with children under the 16 years (Wilson 3). Children and youth were punished as adults because they were seen as ‘miniature adults.’ Historically, has approved that juveniles who shows respect for polices had a little if any prior police contacts, and are perceived as having company parents (Wilson 3). It also indicated that gender and race are critical factors in the process of policy, making decisions concerning adults (Gleason 230). According to research, it suggests that the nature of the offence and the demeanour of the offender has a significant meaning in estimating the type of action the police took.
Children Juvenile Policing in the United States
As people in the united states migrated in large numbers from rural to urban areas, the attitude of the policies of children was the treatment of them. The supreme court in the united state wrote that adults’ procedures of penalties punished the earlier reformers, and children might be given long imprisonment and mixed with hardened criminals in jails (Gleason 230). They believed that the children were ascertained not because he or she is guilty or innocent but what might become, and whatever the children had the best interest and, In the excitement, to save them from downward career (Wilson 2). It wanted the prisoned children to feel like they are an object of the state and not under the arrest or on trial.
The substantive and procedural criminal law were observed by the rigidities and harshness (Wilson 2). The law premised rules of the state agencies to act like they are parent patriae. The juvenile court was established to punish children by a supportive environment and acquiring knowledge (Siegel & Welsh 146). The main objectives of the juvenile were not to sanction children who had transgressed but to rehabilitate them.