The constitutional rights of children
Subtitle: in re Gault and juvenile justice
By: David S. Tanenhaus
Series: Landmark law cases & American society; Landmark law cases & American society
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780700618132; 9780700618149
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Administration of Juvenile justice; Due process of law; Cases; Children; Legal status, laws
Description: "When fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault of Globe, Arizona, allegedly made an obscene phone call to a neighbor, he was arrested by the local police, tried in a proceeding that did not require his accuser's testimony, and sentenced to six years in a juvenile "boot camp"--For an offense that would have cost an adult only two months. Led by Norman Dorsen, the ACLU ultimately took Gault's case to the Supreme Court and in 1967 won a landmark decision authored by Justice Abe Fortas. Widely celebrated as the most important children's rights case of the twentieth century, In re Gault affirmed that children have some of the same rights as adults and formally incorporated the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections into the administration of the nation's juvenile courts."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-141) and index.
Table of contents: title: A disgrace for the state of Arizona; title: Have you got big bombers?; title: This is going to be a great case; title: It will be known as the Magna Carta for juveniles; title: Kent and Gault already seem like period pieces.