An Attitudinal Survey of Forty-Four Juvenile Court Counselors Regarding Due Process Standards in Juvenile Cases

Author

Jerry Robert Franklin, Portland State University

Sponsor

Portland State University. Department of Sociology

Term of Graduation

2021

Date of Publication

1972

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.) in Sociology

Department

Sociology

Language

English

Subjects

Due process of law, Children -- Legal status -- laws, Juvenile courts, Probabtion officers

DOI

10.15760/etd.2059

Physical Description

1 online resource (85 pages)

Abstract

In late 19^th century America, new schools of criminological thinking asserted that crime had its origins in a complex blend of environmental and social factors rather than in the moral deficiencies of the offender. Partly as a result of this new attitude the handling of offenses by juveniles became differentiated from adult cases, first through the construction of separate penal institutions and, beginning in 1899, through the establishment of courts specializing in juvenile cases.

This study was undertaken to examine the attitudes of juvenile probation officers toward the Supreme Court’s Kent, Gault and Winship decisions which made a number of due process procedures mandatory in juvenile cases. Hypotheses were examined which asserted that (1) juvenile probation officers have a generally negative attitude toward due process, (2) probation officers with backgrounds in social work have more negative attitudes toward due process than do their colleagues with other types of backgrounds, and (3) within juvenile probation departments supervisors have more positive attitudes toward due process than do their subordinates.

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Comments

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Sociology

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/13103

Recommended Citation

Franklin, Jerry Robert, "An Attitudinal Survey of Forty-Four Juvenile Court Counselors Regarding Due Process Standards in Juvenile Cases" (1972). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2060.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.2059