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Children and justice: Decision making in children's hearings and juvenile courts
Journal of Crrminul Jtrsficc~. Vol. 12. pp. 317-371 (19X-l) Pergamon Press. Prmted m U.S.A.
CUKKEN’I’
YUBLICA
I‘IUNS ABSl’KAC’l’S
Sarah
S. Grace
Children and Justice: Decision Making in Children’s Hearings and Juvenile Courts by Stewart Asquith.
Police Intelligence Systems in Crime Control by Justin J. Dintino and Frederick T. Martens. Charles C Thomas, Publisher (2600 South First Street, Springfield, Illinois 62717). 1983, 159 pp.. hardcover-$19.75.
Edinburgh University Press (c/o Columbia University Press, 562 West 113th Street. New York. New York 10025), 1983, 258 pp.. hardcover-$25.00. softcover-$17.50.
This book attempts to provide a balanced assessment of domestic police intelligence systems in the control of organized crime. The authors try to reconcile the potential abuse from uncontrolled use of intelligence by government with the necessity of using police intelligence to benefit society. In four chapters the authors define and examine the concept of using information to assess situations and make decisions. They argue that knowledge of organized crime problems also requires good information for developing policies and strategies to deal with it. The longest chapter (Chapter 3) discusses “Intelligence as a Process.” Here the authors make the distinction between information and intelligence, reminding the readers that the analysis of raw data into useful material is the significant difference between the two. They conclude that the collection and analysis phases of the intelligence gathering process must remain separate but closely coordinated. In the opinion of the authors. no modern police organization can afford to operate without intelligence. The final chapter covers various reforms
This book compares the “practical accomplishment of juvenile justice” within two different organizational and administrative structures, the juvenile court in England and the children’s hearings in Scotland. The main underlying assumption is that how people conceive of delinquency in part determines what they do about it. The text is divided into two parts. The first offers a conceptual analysis of the development of juvenile justice. It also covers the different philosophical approaches. The second part uses this conceptual framework to compare the decision making by magistrates in an English juvenile court with members on a Scottish juvenile justice panel. The author’s conclusion of this highly technical and complicated book can be summarized as follows: the ideologies of delinquency control and the social institutions through which these find expression must bear some relationship to the way in which opportunities in life are distributed. Appendices. an extensive bibliography. and an index complete this book. 317
CUKKEN’I’
YUBLICA
I‘IUNS ABSl’KAC’l’S
Sarah
S. Grace
Children and Justice: Decision Making in Children’s Hearings and Juvenile Courts by Stewart Asquith.
Police Intelligence Systems in Crime Control by Justin J. Dintino and Frederick T. Martens. Charles C Thomas, Publisher (2600 South First Street, Springfield, Illinois 62717). 1983, 159 pp.. hardcover-$19.75.
Edinburgh University Press (c/o Columbia University Press, 562 West 113th Street. New York. New York 10025), 1983, 258 pp.. hardcover-$25.00. softcover-$17.50.
This book attempts to provide a balanced assessment of domestic police intelligence systems in the control of organized crime. The authors try to reconcile the potential abuse from uncontrolled use of intelligence by government with the necessity of using police intelligence to benefit society. In four chapters the authors define and examine the concept of using information to assess situations and make decisions. They argue that knowledge of organized crime problems also requires good information for developing policies and strategies to deal with it. The longest chapter (Chapter 3) discusses “Intelligence as a Process.” Here the authors make the distinction between information and intelligence, reminding the readers that the analysis of raw data into useful material is the significant difference between the two. They conclude that the collection and analysis phases of the intelligence gathering process must remain separate but closely coordinated. In the opinion of the authors. no modern police organization can afford to operate without intelligence. The final chapter covers various reforms
This book compares the “practical accomplishment of juvenile justice” within two different organizational and administrative structures, the juvenile court in England and the children’s hearings in Scotland. The main underlying assumption is that how people conceive of delinquency in part determines what they do about it. The text is divided into two parts. The first offers a conceptual analysis of the development of juvenile justice. It also covers the different philosophical approaches. The second part uses this conceptual framework to compare the decision making by magistrates in an English juvenile court with members on a Scottish juvenile justice panel. The author’s conclusion of this highly technical and complicated book can be summarized as follows: the ideologies of delinquency control and the social institutions through which these find expression must bear some relationship to the way in which opportunities in life are distributed. Appendices. an extensive bibliography. and an index complete this book. 317