Juvenile Justice System In The 1800s

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The history of Juvenile Justice dates back to the early 1800s. Child were classified as adults when committing a crime. When a children reached the age of five they were put into society and were treated as adults. Changes to the juvenile justice system did not begin until the early 1800s. The first institution was the House of Refuge, which separated the children from the outside world. Many of the institutions that were made were designed to separate juveniles from adults and for them to be treated differently. The first juvenile court was established in Cook County, IL in 1899. The system wanted to help them find alternatives from doing wrong and treat them as way to stay out of trouble and ‘adult’ jail. Parens patriae plays a huge roll

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