The Juvenile Justice System

The method of inquiry begins with the inductive examination of the issues involved, through readings of observers and theorists in order to develop a general concept of the problem and of the organizational behavior responding to the problem. The intent is to utilize an abductive framework for decision-making about the issue. Williams (1985) has described abduction as a process of innovation or second-order change. To achieve this, it is necessary first to have a method enabling us to see the logic of the present culture and second to communicate this to others (133-135). Haney (1992) indicates the necessity of seeing the subject being studied in terms of change over time so that we look to the past to see how it has developed and thus to the future to see how it will or can develop (423-424). The juvenile justice system will be examined in terms of change ov

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st two-thirds of juvenile girls were committed to state and local institutions. Much of this incarceration was seen as unnecessary. The probation system was inadequate because the probation officer had little time for family counseling, and though he or she was supposed to be a mentor and guide for the client, there were usually too many clients for individual care to be possible (pp. 46-47). The movement toward community-based programs has been based on many of the original conceptions underlying the creation of a separate juvenile justice system, including the state as a substitute parent and the belief that rehabilitation of the young was both possible and necessary. As noted, though, the public has shown less and less patience with any program except incarceration because of fears of street crime and the perception, justified or not, that the entire criminal justice system is too soft on criminals and that violent criminals are being released to commit more crimes. This is one of the main problems facing such programs in gaining community acceptance. Curran (1988) examines the trends in the U.S. juvenile correctional system and finds a movement toward deinstitutionalization, accompanied by legislation addressing the de
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