Juvenile Delinquency, Chicago, Ill: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 89, Investigation of Juvenile Delinquency in the United States. October 27 and 28, 1954 |
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Page 168 - The purpose of this section is to protect society more effectively by providing a program looking toward the prevention of delinquency and crime by educating the youth of the state against crime and by substituting for retributive punishment, methods of training and treatment directed toward the correction and rehabilitation of young persons found delinquent or guilty of crime.
Page 216 - The court also pointed out that the Gaults appeared at the two hearings "without objection." The court held that because "the policy of the juvenile law is to hide youthful errors from the full gaze of the public and bury them in the graveyard of the forgotten past...
Page 169 - ... discharge him from its control when it is satisfied that such discharge is consistent with the protection of the public.
Page 172 - ... 7. To give notice to the Governor and to the director of the department with which it is associated of the time and place of every meeting, regular or special, and to permit the Governor and the director of the department to be present and to be heard upon any matter coming before such board.
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