Colonial Period Juvenile Justice System

According to Wilding During the colonial period juvenile was treated like adult when they committed crimes. At that time there wasn't anything set in place for juvenile who committed a crime so they would get punishes the same as adults. Until juvenile court where developed the delinquency juvenile was treated like adults criminal, with the age of reason being 7. There for the behavior was set as adult standard.

According to David S. Tanenhaus, he stated on how the juvenile court would function to standards, and how it took 25 years to get that way of real sense of how this could work out for the juvenile system. Progressives put a exacting weight on children's issues, including learning and fairness. During that time they believed that they could use community knowledge to make inquiries to run cities, and to help other to create a more caring and resourceful to the general public. Sometime in 1945 all stated had juvenile court system working. In Chicago's juvenile court had a better way on the behavior of delinquent children. In New York City's had a place they use as a safe haven for juveniles call a house of refuge, and it was established by 1825, this was to separated juveniles from adult prisoners that did crime but they was put in a correction as opposed to punishment that could help them other then hurt them.

Colonial time punishment would consists of public humiliation during that time "Pillory" was one of the humiliation that they did in the center of town where everyone would see them as they walk pass. This was a framework that had holes for who every did bad crime that they could put their head and hands to stick through while they stood up. People would throw all kind of rotten fruit or other items at them thru out the day. They would carry out the punishment in all kind of weather rain or shine in the cold they would still be in it. Another punishment was whipping, they had whipping posts, and they would whip the criminal in front of the whole town so they would see who the town criminal was. They also had hanging to include women and children; this is also a public viewing so the people would see who's doing what.

I think the theories that may be relevant to the topic would be culture of poverty. Sometime depending on what cites or what area you are at that could play a major role in your behavior that would make person do the thing that they do. I think it has something to do with how are the conditions at home, if you have both parent in the same house whole or one of them there with your other bothers or sister. The community surroundings have actually worsened in some metropolitan area during that time.