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The Cook County Juvenile Court was the first juvenile court established in the U.S., in 1899. During its first quarter century, its most important person was Mary Bartelme, whose official titles were Cook County Public Guardian and then (after 1913) assistant to the judge. Bartelme devoted much of her life to child welfare and the reform of ...
The nation's first juvenile court was formed in Illinois in 1899 and provided a legal distinction between juvenile abandonment and crime. [8] The law that established the court, the Illinois Juvenile Court Law of 1899, was created largely because of the advocacy of women such as Jane Addams, Louise DeKoven Bowen, Lucy Flower and Julia Lathrop, who were members of the influential Chicago Woman ...
The first juvenile court in the United States was established in 1899 in Cook County, Illinois. [2] Before this time, it was widely held that children 7 years old and older were capable of criminal intent and were therefore punished as adults. [ 3 ]
Flower was very interested in helping juveniles, which leads to her biggest creation - the juvenile court, founded on July 1, 1899, in Cook County, Illinois. Before the juvenile court, children as young as seven were sent to jails with adult criminals.
Niemeier told voters in his first Superior Court judgeship campaign in 2000 that he had prosecuted criminal cases involving more than 100 abused and neglected children. ... the first juvenile ...
The family of a 12-year-old Milwaukee boy charged with homicide could know soon if the case against him will be waived into juvenile court. Milwaukee County Juvenile Court Judge Jane Carroll is ...
Juvenile court, also known as young offender's court or children's court, is a tribunal having special authority to pass judgements for crimes committed by children who have not attained the age of majority. In most modern legal systems, children who commit a crime are treated differently from legal adults who have committed the same offense.
Nueces County Judge Timothy McCoy reached a decision in County Court at Law No. 5 on Monday to certify a juvenile accused of killing 15-year-old Eriya Ruiz to stand trial as an adult.