RT Article
T1 Dangerous children: juvenile delinquency and judicial intervention in the Netherlands, 1960-1995
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 37
IS 4
SP 379
OP 401
A1 Komen, Mieke
LA English
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882907531
AB In the continuing controversy in academic circles over the rise in reported juvenile violent delinquency, some scholars attribute it largely to the increase in the actual number of offences while others emphasize changes in registration and intervention practices. This article reviews changes in the way justice workers try to control the behaviour of delinquent juveniles in the Netherlands in the period 1960-1995. The study is based on ananalysis of files on adolescents and children placed in the Dutch juvenile justice system by judges during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Comparing the older and recent files reveals that the interventions of juvenile justice workers became less harshly. This process has coincided with a rise in the severity of violence and crimes committed by the youngsters. As a result juvenile justice workers intervene indeed more frequently from the beginning of the 1980s, but still in a less punitive way. The external constraints in the Dutch judicial system are rather gentle and prudent, while the youngsters exercise more severe violence and crimes, suggesting further inquiry to the degree of autonomy of, and interaction between, adult socialization among professionals and youth socialization.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 399-401
K1 Actual Number
K1 International Relation
K1 Intervention Practice
K1 Judicial System
K1 Juvenile Justice
DO 10.1023/A:1016011826864