JUVINILE JUSTICE TODAY

In the 1960s, many people argued that juvinille court providing harsher treatment than the adult system without the procedural safe guards and constiutional rigths that defendants would have in adults courts. Begining in 1966, this movement found support in the us supreme court, and several decisions were later made that began to change the theory and oparation of the juvinile justice system.In deciding the gault case, the supreme court held that juviniles should recive many of the same due process rigths as adults.