Juvenile Delinquency in the City of St. Louis and in St. Louis County, Mo: Interim Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency to the Committee on the Judiciary, Pursuant to S. Res. 173 (84th Cong., 2d Sess.), a Part of the Investigation of Juvenile Delinquency in the United States |
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Page 10 - The subcommittee would like to incorporate into its recommendations some of the proposals made by the Social Planning Council of St. Louis and St. Louis County in its report of the juvenile delinquency review committee.
Page 9 - Courts" prepared by the Children's Bureau of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and the "Guides for Juvenile Court Judges" and the manual on "Procedure and Evidence in the Juvenile Court," both prepared by the Advisory Council of Judges of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Brief attention to them here will suffice. Notice Child and parent should be notified...
Page 14 - ... activities. Consideration should be given in St. Louis to the securing of funds from voluntary and/or tax sources for the conduct of demonstration detached worker programs in some of the areas with high delinquency rates.
Page 1 - Res. 190, a part of the investigation of juvenile delinquency in the United States by the US Senate, 1955.
Page 9 - DELINQUENCY 9 is rotated, as we have in our system in St. Louis, by the time he is acquainted with the job and with his clientele he is off the bench. I think we need a juvenile court judge in the city of St. Louis who is not chosen for his political affiliations. It does not make any difference whether he is a Republican or a Democrat or a Socialist, if he is a qualified judge or a qualified man to handle the situation.
Page 7 - ... number of public and private agencies. The chief public agencies dealing with the problem in St. Louis are the juvenile court, the police department, and board of children's guardians. This board, which is appointed by the mayor, provided service for 1,415 children during the last fiscal year, and its responsibilities fall into two general categories: the care of dependent and neglected children who are not delinquents, and the operation of 2 correctional institutions for delinquent boys and...
Page 8 - All he has is the case history to come back to. Mr. Irving Fawcett, special school coordinator on vandalism, who has worked with the juvenile courts, stated: Another thing, I think the city needs a permanent juvenile court judge. We should have a judge who is trained for the work. Now, I am not saying this as a reflection on any of the judges. I have worked for a long stream of juvenile court judges, under them, from Judge Hennings on down to the present time, and it has been my observation that...
Page 8 - ... no argument, it seems to me, on the need for greater police protection. I think that Acting Chief Casey's suggestion for a so-called decoy squad is one step in the right direction. Much more is still needed. There should be more uniformed and plainclothes policemen patrolling parks and other trouble areas. I think that Negro policemen, incidentally, should be added in Negro areas, for they can do a far better job in those neighborhoods than white officers. The subcommittee has found that when...
Page 13 - EFFECTIVE WORK WITH DELINQUENT AND POTENTIALLY DELINQUENT YOUTH NOT AFFILIATED WITH RECREATION AND CHARACTER BUILDING ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY "The Metropolitan Youth Commission should encourage and assist in securing funds for the development of a detached worker program to work with hard-to-reach potentially delinquent groups or gangs of youngsters not affiliated with constituted recreational and character building agencies. Such a program is now in effect in a number of metropolitan communities....
Page 14 - ... detached worker program to work with hard-to-reach potentially delinquent groups or gangs of youngsters not affiliated with constituted recreational and character building agencies. Such a program is now in effect in a number of metropolitan communities. Among these are New York City's Youth Board which operates a program with street gangs and clubs, and Cleveland where by means of foundation funds special workers are made available to the recreational agencies to reach out to groups of youth...