Effects of cognitive schemas on children's testimony for a simulated juvenile crime

Over the past several decades, societal responses to juvenile crime has evolved from harsh sentences (including death) to more lenient punishments in congruence with our greater understanding of adolescent development. However, some groups of young offenders, such as those convicted of sexual offenses, appear to have fallen victim to a more punitive zeitgeist, where the mitigating effect of age may be diminished. In a 3 x (2) design, participants were randomly assigned to one of three vignette conditions and completed several measures regarding both juveniles and adults adjudicated for sexual offenses, including attitudes, moral outrage, and recommendations for sentence length and registration. Results indicated that adjudicated juveniles are viewed more favourably than their adult counterparts, although both received relatively long sentences. Further, over 90% of participants endorsed some form of registration for juvenile offenders. Implications for offender reintegration and public policy are discussed below.

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"Away with dark shadders!" Juvenile Detection Versus Juvenile Crime in The Boy Detective; or, The Crimes of London. A Romance of Modern Times

Clues A Journal of Detection ◽

10.3172/clu.30.1.18 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 18-29

Author(s):

Lucy Andrew

Keyword(s):

Juvenile Crime ◽

Modern Times

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The Relationship between Juvenile Transfer Laws and Juvenile Crime

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1289963 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Jacob Cohn

Keyword(s):

Juvenile Crime ◽

Juvenile Transfer ◽

The Relationship

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Exploring political rupture through Jewish children’s diaries: Kindertransport children in France, 1938-1942

Journal of Modern European History ◽

10.1177/16118944211017765 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 161189442110177

Author(s):

Laura Hobson Faure

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Childhood Studies ◽

Political Environment ◽

World War ◽

Daily Lives ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Nazi Occupation ◽

Jewish Children ◽

European Jewish ◽

Children's Testimony

This article focuses on France as a refuge for unaccompanied Central European Jewish children on the eve of World War II. Contrary to the United Kingdom, which accepted 10,000 Jewish children through Kindertransport, only 350-450 children entered France. This article utilizes children’s diaries and organizational records to question how children perceived and recorded their displacement and resettlement in France, a country that would soon be at war, and then occupied, by Nazi Germany. By questioning how these events filtered into and transformed children’s lives, I argue that the shifting political environment led to profound transformations in these children’s daily lives long before their very existence was threatened by Nazi–Vichy deportation measures. Most children were cared for in collective children’s homes in the Paris region in which left-oriented educators established children’s republics. Yet the outbreak of war triggered a series of events in the homes that led to changes in pedagogical methods and new arrivals (and thus new conflicts). The Nazi occupation of France led to the children’s displacement to the Southern zone, their dispersal into new homes, and the reconfiguration of their networks. This analysis of children’s contemporaneous sources and the conditions under which they were produced places new emphasis on the epistemology of Kindertransport sources and thus contributes to larger theoretical discussions in Holocaust and Childhood studies on children’s testimony.

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