Child-Savers

Child-Savers



Child-Savers

Introduction

Child saving movement arose in the United States in the nineteenth century and influenced the development of the juvenile justice system. Child-savers stressed the importance of redemption and prevention through early detection of abnormalities and intervention in the form of education and training. There is the assumption that the additional, and perhaps the main goal was to increase control over the poor and immigrant children.Child Savers was the 20th century, the Progressive Era reformers, who intentions to mitigate the roots of crime and the child changes, and changes in the treatment of juveniles in the justice system. These women reformers organized in 1909 to stem the tide of 10,000 young offenders were held annually through the judicial system of the city. (homepage.mac.com)The main achievement of the Child Savers was establishing the first juvenile court, which appeared in Chicago in 1899. This trial was based on two principles serve as a highly Child Savers. These two principles were formed on the basis that "minors were not prepared to take responsibility for their actions" and "they were not fully developed and can be rehabilitated more easily than adults." This problem of juvenile delinquency was a problem between 19 and 20 centuries, and the contribution of the child savers; both good and bad are obvious in their history. Besides the creation of juvenile courts in the cities of the United States was one of the first social welfare reforms progressive ears, and represented a major change in the way in which the right is considered wayward children. The essence of the idea of juvenile court and juvenile traffic court is the recognition of the commitment the great state of her mother's attention and wayward children, and her commitment to deal with them as children and wards, and not to class them as criminals and drive them tough action series vice -Crime. (Anleu 1995)

Michael B. Katz (1996) explains that turn, after the depression of the 20th century produced a new movement hopes to address the Child saving miserable social conditions. Children's depositors have children from almshouses for the poor, fought against child labor, pushed for public education and acceptance and fellowship, not institutinalization.

To combat child labor was especially important because children often face gruesom conditions. Movement of the child savers, held as a person and organizatinal goals. By 1852 the laws on compulsory education were held in the United States. Few poor ...