Juvenile Courts And Probation

ourt itself from that under the old law. From the moment the law lays its hands upon the child, he must feel that the whole object of the proceeding in which he is involved is for the purpose of protecting and not of punishing, of helping and not stigmatizing him. The whole process, therefore, should be consistent. It is practically useless to make the basis of the system educational from the time the child is placed on probation and at the same time adhere to the old methods of arrest, detention and trial. Section 1. The Judge ROTATION OF JUDGES The jurisdiction of the juvenile court is not infrequently placed in a court made up of a number of judges who rotate from one division of the court to another. This practice of having judges rotate in a juvenile court is inherently wrong. The possibility of cultivating a C/3 rt more or less personal relation with the child cannot be worked out in a court with rotating judges. The probation office needs the background of intelligent cooperation on the part of the judge not only in the cases in the mass but in individual cases, and this can only be gotten where the judge sits for a sufficient time to enable him to know the children brought before him. If the organization of the court, therefore, is such as to make it necessary that the judges rotate, the assignments of the fudges to the juvenile court should under no circumstances be for less than the judicial year, and preferably for a longer period. ...