Children's Division of the Domestic Relations Court of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York: A Survey With Emphasis on the Probation Department and Its Services to Adjudicated Delinquents, 1915-1957
Abstract
"The Juvenile Court is often represented as the most outstanding improvement in the administration of criminal justice since the Magna Carta in 1212." In the early part of the 20th Century, a new conception of law evolved, a conception that law is just one of the social sciences and that it, too, should be a means toward social ends. This kind of thinking led us to believe that we could no longer merely punish or gain vengeance in a primitive way through our courts, but that we must try to understand the social causes and effects of human behavior, especially where our children, our hope for the future, are concerned. It was envisioned that in this way, and in this way only, could the interests of the child and of the community be fostered. Thus, under the impetus of this advanced and progressive thought did the Juvenile Court come into being.
Subject Area
Law|Social work
Recommended Citation
Kerrigan, Helen M, "Children's Division of the Domestic Relations Court of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York: A Survey With Emphasis on the Probation Department and Its Services to Adjudicated Delinquents, 1915-1957" (1958). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557654.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557654
