POLICE WORK and JUVENILES

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V.

• POLICE WORK and JUVENILES

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A. Historical Antecedents

• 1st police woman? Lola Baldwin (1860-1957)
• 1940s-1950s, the Great Juvenile Delinquency
• Scare
• 1960s burgeoning levels of teen violence,
• culture wars, drug use, ineffective
  juvenile
• justice system
• gt Womens Liberation Movement
• 1974 National Advisory Council on Criminal
• Justice Standards and Goals
• gt virtually all police departments of any
  size have specific juvenile
• crime units

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B. Police Roles

• Police functions
• a. traditional focus
• 1) law enforcement
• 2) order maintenance
• 3) service provider
• b. James Q Wilson (1968) Varieties of
  Police Behavior The
• Management of Law and Order in Eight
  Communities
• 1) Watchman
• 2) Service
• 3) Legalistic

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• contemporary models
• a. professional / reactive policing
• b. post-modern / proactive policing
• justice system gate-keepers
• discretion
• gt the ability / right to or not to act
  prudence the ability to decide
• a course of action

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C. Juvenile Contact

• youths in public
• a. behaviors out in the open
• b. lack of sophistication
• gt crimes of opportunity
• c. packs of juveniles
• d. attitude
• Successful Degradation Ceremonies
• a. labeling matters

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• citizen-encounters
• gt the essence of broken windows
• family-encounters
• gt parents, abusers
• school-encounters
• police-encounters
• a. hazards of use of excessive force
• b. custodial interrogations
• gt Feld (2003) argues that juveniles,
  children may
• not have the ability to determine
  what waiver
• means

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D. Juveniles in Custody

• identification procedures
• record keeping
• 3. All that Constitutional crap

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E. Stuffs to Do

• Police Explorers
• Police Athletic Leagues
• D A R E
• Gang Resistance Education Awareness and Training
• Community Oriented Policing
• School Resource Officers

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F. Conclusion

• Community expectations need to be evaluated and
  assessed and priorities established
• Juvenile officers need love too
• 3. Education or training