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16 Incorrigibility American arrested bad company bation boys and girls brought into court chapter Chicago children brought committed compulsory education Cook County court of chancery court records criminal degraded delinquent boys delinquent children delinquent girls dependent deserted detention home disorderly conduct earn money fact family schedules father fifteen foreign born gang GIRLS BROUGHT go to school grade guardian Illinois immigrated immoral institution interest investigation John Worthy School judge JUNE 30 jurisdiction juvenile court law juvenile law large number left school lived married months mother neighborhood number of boys number of children Number Per Cent offenses older Parental School paroled police poor probation department probation officer prostitution put on probation railroad released reputable citizen rooms says school statements sent to Geneva sister sixteen Statutes staying stepmother stole street tion total number truancy truant tuberculosis wages wards
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Page 188 - A child of more than seven and less than sixteen years of age, who shall commit any act or omission which, if committed by an adult, would be a crime not punishable by death or life imprisonment, shall not be deemed guilty of any crime, but of juvenile delinquency only...
Page 188 - ... be punishable as a principal or accessory shall be punishable as a principal or accessory in the same manner as if such child were over sixteen years of age at the time the crime was committed. Any child charged with any act or omission which may render him guilty of juvenile delinquency shall be dealt with in the same manner as now is or may hereafter be provided in the case of adults charged with the same act or omission except as specially provided heretofore in the case of children under...
Page 190 - The action is not for the trial of a child charged with a crime, but is mercifully to save it from such an ordeal, with the prison or penitentiary in its wake, if the child's own good and the best interests of the state justify such salvation...
Page 191 - It is to be remembered that the public has a paramount interest in the virtue and knowledge of its members, and that, of strict right, the business of education belongs to it.
Page 198 - What is he, how has he become what he is, and what had best be done in his interest and in the interest of the state to save him from a downward career.
Page 253 - ... to make all necessary orders for compelling the production of such child, and the attendance of the parents and all persons having the custody or control of the child or with whom the child may be, and pending the final disposition of any case the child shall be subject to the order of the court and may be permitted...
Page 198 - Because of the extent of his jurisdiction and the tremendous responsibility that it entails, it would seem to be essential that he be a trained lawyer, thoroughly imbued with the doctrine that ours is a " government of laws and not of men.
Page 190 - To save a child from becoming a criminal, or from continuing in a career of crime, to end in maturer years in public punishment and disgrace, the Legislature surely may provide for the salvation of such a child, if its parents or guardian be unable or unwilling to do so, by bringing it into one of the courts of the state without any process at all, for the purpose of subjecting it to the state's guardianship and protection.
Page 187 - And it is this thought— the thought that the child who has begun to go wrong, who is incorrigible, who has broken a law or an ordinance, is to be taken in hand by the state not as an enemy but as a protector, as the ultimate guardian, because either the unwillingness or inability of the natural parents to guide it toward good citizenship has compelled the intervention of the public authorities...
Page 197 - The juvenile court law is of such vast importance to the state and society that it seems to us it should be administered by those who are learned in the law and versed in the rules of procedure, to the end that the beneficent purposes of the law may be made effective and individual rights respected.