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Juvenile Delinquency
California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest update: December 28, 1998
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Exercise 1: The "Stubborn Child"
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What role did gender play in the establishment of the juvenile justice system? (Platt, pp. 7-12)
Platt says "What seemingly began as a movement to humanize the lives of adolescents soon developed into a program of moral absolutism through which youth was to be saved . . ." What would Minow say about categorical thinking here? What would Freire suggest about the zeal of the reformers? (lecture)
Does Platt present a "left" or "right" perspective here? Justify.
(pp. 7-12)
What does Platt mean by "[t]he child-savers made a fact
out of the norm of adolescent dependence?"
Is due process an issue in the juvenile justice system in its origins? and in its present development? (pp. 16-19)
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