Learning Objectives

On completion of this chapter, students should be able to do the following:

  • Understand the history of juvenile justice in the United States
     
  • Understand contemporary challenges to the juvenile justice system
     
  • Discuss the controversy between due process and informality in juvenile justice
     
  • Recognize discrepancies between the ideal and real juvenile justice systems
     
  • Recount some of the reforms occurring in the juvenile justice system