From Children to Citizens

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Problem

   • Mark Harrison Moore

   Pages 1-24

3. The Historical Legacy

   • George L. Kelling

   Pages 25-48

4. The Contemporary Mandate

   • Thomas Bearrows, Jeffrey Bleich, Michael Oshima

   Pages 49-95

5. The Current System: Structure and Operations

   • Francis X. Hartmann

   Pages 96-127

6. Emergent Problems

   • Saul Weingart

   Pages 128-153

7. Alternative Futures

   • Mark Harrison Moore

   Pages 154-170

8. Toward Juvenile Justice

   • Mark Harrison Moore

   Pages 171-189

9. Back Matter

   Pages 191-199

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From the preface: "History has dealt the juvenile court (and, more broadly, the juvenile justice system) a cruel blow. What began as a promising social experiment has disappointed nearly everyone... Inevitably, disillusionment has weakened the mandate of the juvenile justice system. Conflicts in philosophy, once held at bay by general enthusiasm for the enterprise, have now surfaced with great urgency. What, in fact, is the purpose of the juvenile justice system? Is it to protect the community from youth crime, or to help children grow up? Is it primarily a court dominated by concerns for justice? Or, is it more fundamentally a social service agency concerned with structuring the environments of children? Is the court an independent institution that stands apart from the community and administers justice in a fair and impartial way? Or, is the court an agent of the community in the sense that it establishes norms of conduct and draws both public and private agencies to the tasks of socializing children?"

• Delinquency
• ETA
• Shadow
• child
• child abuse
• children
• conflict
• environment
• experiment
• intervention
• philosophy
• police
• politics
• service
• youth

• Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  Mark Harrison Moore

Policies and ethics