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4 Crime & Delinquency 1 (1958)

handle is hein.journals/cadq4 and id is 1 raw text is: NPPA NATIONAL PROBATION AND PAROLE ASSOCIATION Journal Volume 4 January 1958 Number 1 When Should a Child Be Committed? THOMAs D. GILL Judge, State Juvenile Court, Hartford, Connecticut I NEVITABLY, an active juvenile court judge will be called upon with great frequency to consider the commitment of boys and girls to cor- rectional institutions. Inevitably, too, no matter how lengthy his tenure of office, he will experience on each such occasion some resurgence of the mis- givings which played so vivid a part in his first commitment. To some small degree, this is his reassurance, however trying, that he has not be- come a victim of judicial megalo- mania, that the humaneness and hum- bleness of spirit so essential to his ad- ministration of justice have survived both the numbing impact of long ex- posure to human shortcomings and the creeping arrogance so often im- plicit in unlimited authority. This quickening of anxiety and compassion is the judge's best evidence that he has not grown callous to the immense importance of the decision involved in abridging the most fundamental and perhaps the dearest of all human rights, the union between child and parent. The judge's emotions, then, may well play a legitimate part in prop- erly focusing for him the implications of his decision and perhaps to some degree may guide him in the manner in which he interprets that decision, but they must never become its chief concomitants. An emotionless judge will find it difficult to serve his office well-an emotional judge, impossible. Visceral Thinking Pity honors, even as anger discred- its, its possessor, but both will and do betray the judge's efforts to protect the community and serve its youth. 1 pp. 1-112 reprinted with permission by Kraus Reprint Corporation.

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