Revised Manual Of Laws Of Massachusetts Concerning Children 1882 Classic Reprint

Author : Warren Foster Spalding
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396136108
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Delinquent and Wayward Children written by Warren Foster Spalding and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Delinquent and Wayward Children: New Massachusetts Methods of Treatment; The Law of 1906 (Chapter 413) Together With an Analysis of the New Legislation and a Comparison of Its Provisions With Those of Former Statutes No one who understands youthful wrongdoers needs to be convinced that there is a wide difference between the offences of children and those of adults. A considerable proportion of those committed by children and youth are in no proper sense crimes. They are violations of city ordinances, and of town by - laws, which forbid in one place acts which are permitted in another. These prohibitions are made necessary by the exigencies of modern life. There is no moral quality in the violations, but under the old laws they were treated like serious crimes. There is another class of juvenile misdeeds which, in them selves, are criminal - such as larceny, burglary, etc., but few youthful offenders commit these acts from the same motives which impel adults to commit them, or have any clear idea of their seriousness. Their conceptions are those of children or youth - with the errors and defects of immaturity. The civil laws of the state recognize this immaturity in many ways. A boy or girl, even of twenty, is legally incapable of making a binding contract. The enactment of the new legislation will make our civil and criminal laws more consistent than they have been. The remedy for the defects of the existing system was found to be a change in the statutory relation between children and thestate. Under the law which has been passed, the misdeed of a child is still recognized as something to be dealt with by the courts, not, however, as a crime, to be punished, but as an act which warrants the state in making the offender its ward, with all which that implies of judicial relations and responsibilities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.