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564 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (1999)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0564 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE The juvenile court marks its hundredth anniversary this year. At the time of its creation, the juvenile court was heralded as one of the greatest advance- ments in the cause for children. While few will argue with the fact that the juvenile court has been a constructive force in promoting the welfare of chil- dren, the court has also been the subject of ongoing and increasingly severe criticism. The problems and abuses that plagued the juvenile court eventu- ally reached the United States Supreme Court, whose decisions transformed the juvenile court from a social welfare institution into a court of law for young people. Now the juvenile court is faced with legislative policy changes resulting in a loss ofjurisdiction over serious, chronic, and, in particular, vio- lent delinquent acts. Also, the juvenile court's centennial arrives at a time when the voices calling for its abolition are growing louder and gaining support. The articles in this volume had their roots in a symposium on the future of the juvenile court that was held at the University of Pennsylvania on 29-30 May 1997. The meeting was cosponsored by the university's School of Social Work and Law School. The participants were carefully selected and consisted of some of the country's leading juvenile justice policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and child advocates. The articles were written in the hopes of providing thoughtful and rational policy guidance to the heated and too often irrational debates taking place about the future of the juvenile court and related justice system for children. The overall chairman of the symposium was the late Dr. Marvin Wolfgang, one of the world's leading criminologists and the person to whom this volume is dedicated. Much has already been written about the future of the juvenile court. How- ever, what has been written is largely limited to the role of the juvenile court in delinquency matters. The articles in this volume address this subject, but they go far beyond this one, albeit important, issue. The articles about the juvenile court's role in delinquency were written from theoretical and applied perspectives, with some authors offering different or opposing points of view. Two of the articles explore the role of the juvenile court in dependency, neglect, and related child maltreatment areas. One article includes a discus- sion about the role ofthe juvenile court in children's mental health. One of the authors examines the future of youth corrections, a critically important area interconnected with the juvenile court but often left out when considering the future of the court. Another article addresses the issues and concerns of young women who come into contact with the juvenile justice system, another area often overlooked in these debates. Another important feature of this volume is that the authors are both highly respected academics and prominent practitioners. This blend of 8

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