The authors, a former Commissioner and a former Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, offer the thesis that the serious offender represents the ultimate test in any juvenile correctional system. They portray how the Massachusetts community-based correctional system has, in its first decade, met that test, and indicate what further work must […]
Book Forward: Beyond the Courtroom
Our system of justice is adversarial. Lawyers argue the rightness of their case within a corpus of law as interpreted by a judge or jury. The laws change. Those served by the law change. Free legal service is now available in some form or other to the poor and to juveniles. Before long, children may […]
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