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The Juvenile Court (JC): The Original Design – The Philadelphia Version
Abstract
Chapter 4 details the nature of the original juvenile court (JC) via data from Philadelphia. Although all the data are from Philadelphia, the elements corroborate the declarations from national JC proponents, covered in Chapter 2. In other words, Philadelphia's JC likely operated very similarly to urban JCs across the country. The JC from the first few decades of the twentieth century bears little, if any, comparison to the JC of today. The chapter reveals a very young offender population committing obnoxious “offenses” rather than serious crimes. The original JC was committed to a morality crusade to maintain the chastity of girls, treating similarly behaving boys differently, and to informally resolving as many disputes as possible in the community, without direct JC involvement. JC was portrayed as the ultimate parent, denying defendants rights, while committing very few “offenders,” and only to benign facilities/clinics. JCs were engaged in cleaning up families and communities.
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