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71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 89 (2002-2003)
Songs of Validation, Voice, and Voluntary Participation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Miranda and Juveniles

handle is hein.journals/ucinlr71 and id is 99 raw text is: SONGS OF VALIDATION, VOICE, AND VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION: THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE, MIRANDA AND JUVENILES Amy D. Ronner INTRODUCTION In his Songs of Innocence, William Blake, the Eighteenth Century poet, portrays childhood as a prelapsarian state: When the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast And everything else is still Then come home my children, the sun is gone down And the dews of night arise Come come leave off play, and let us away Till the morning appears in the skies No let us play, for it is yet day And we cannot go to sleep Besides in the sky, the little birds fly And the hills are all coverd with sheep Well well go & play till the light fades away And then go home to bed The little ones leaped & shouted & laughed And all the hills ecchoed' Along the edge of the etching that accompanies the poem, there bends a sinister weeping willow, perhaps portending that life can clash with idealized childhood bliss.2 The juvenile justice system in which a young offender must submit to criminal prosecution can surely substantiate Blake's darker admonition. * Visiting Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law. J.D., University of Miami, 1985; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980; M.A., University of Michigan, 1976; B.A., Beloit College, 1975. 1 would like to dedicate this article to Esther Levy Blynn, a superb lawyer, a fine human being, and a true champion forjuveniles. I am also grateful to my friends and mentors, BruceJ. Winick and David B. Wexler, the founders of therapeutic jurisprudence, and my research assistants, Dennis O'Connor and Denise Christie. I. WILLIAM BL\KE,.iurse's Song, in SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE 24 (1967). 2. Id.; see also SIR GEOFFREY KEYNES, Commentary, in SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE, supra note I (The weeping willow in the right-hand margin is perhaps a reminder that not all life is fun and games).

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