Routledge - The Juvenile Court System: Social Action and Legal Change

Explore the evolution of justice through Routledge's detailed analysis of the juvenile court system. This volume focuses on the significant changes in law and the administration of justice affecting juvenile offenders in California during the 1950s and 1960s. Readers will gain insight into how procedural law develops over long periods and the specific conditions that drive these shifts. The text examines the processes behind revolutionary legal changes and investigates whether social change can be directed or controlled through legislation. Starting in 1958, social action began to revise California's juvenile court law, which had seen little modification since 1915. This work tracks the impact of legal reformers as they worked to change the system, providing a deep look at the intersection of social action and legal reform.