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The Role of the District Attorney in Juvenile Court: Is the Juvenile Court Becoming Just Like Adult Court?
Author(s) -
Sagatun Inger J.,
Edwards Leonard P.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
juvenile and family court journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1755-6988
pISSN - 0161-7109
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6988.1979.tb00842.x
Subject(s) - law , juvenile court , juvenile , sociology , library science , political science , juvenile delinquency , criminology , computer science , biology , genetics
California juvenile law has changed dramatically in the past two years. Dissatisfied with the statutory law created in the early 1960s, legislators made significant modifications in the law in both 1975 and 1976. Much of the legislative focus has been on the socalled status offenders and the sixteen and seventeen-year-old youth accused of hard core criminality and his relationship to the courts of criminal jurisdiction.