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Myopic Justice? The Juvenile Court and Child Welfare Systems

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  • Ira M. Schwartz

    (School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania)

  • Neil Alan Weiner

    (Center for the Study of Youth Policy at the University of Pennsylvania)

  • Guy Enosh

    (University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract

The two major institutions set up to assist at-risk youths—the juvenile court and the child welfare system—have failed at their common historical mission to treat, supervise, rehabilitate, protect, and care for youths. Institutional survival has almost always taken precedence over this core mission. The result has been the unintended but not unexpected victimization of their vulnerable, often already victimized young clientele. There are profound political, social, and institutional forces intense balance surrounding the two systems. Some of these forces keep the two institutions from coming apart and crumbling. Others keep them from pursuing the basic required changes that would presage meaningful institutional reform and, perhaps, revival. Despite these obstacles to change, there are still possibilities for embarking upon a politically and socially sound process of change. This process might enable the juvenile court and the child welfare system to better fulfill their mission.

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  • Ira M. Schwartz & Neil Alan Weiner & Guy Enosh, 1999. "Myopic Justice? The Juvenile Court and Child Welfare Systems," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 564(1), pages 126-141, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:564:y:1999:i:1:p:126-141
    DOI: 10.1177/000271629956400108
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    1. Morgan, Lauren Ashley, 2022. "“Dual jurisdiction? It doesn’t work like that:” Practitioner decision-making at the juvenile justice and child welfare nexus," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 143(C).

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