Graduation Date
1977
Document Type
Thesis
Program
Other
Program
Arts
Committee Chair Name
Dr. Karen Foss
Committee Chair Affiliation
Cal Poly Humboldt Faculty or Staff
Second Committee Member Name
Dr. Davey William G.
Third Committee Member Name
Dr. Paul Crosbie
Keywords
Art
Subject Categories
Art
Abstract
Juvenile delinquency is a very real and serious problem in twentieth-century American society. Juvenile criminal offenders are crowding state and local detention facilities throughout the United States, Of the 290 state and local public training schools, ranches, forestry camps, and farms surveyed in November 1973, 16.6 percent claimed to be overcrowded as compared to 14,7 percent only two years before. The crowding can be attributed to a number of situations, one of which is the gradual increase in juvenile court cases handled in recent years. In 1960, 510,000 delinquency cases were referred to a juvenile court for violation of a law or ordinance or for seriously antisocial conduct. The figure almost doubled by 1970, Increasing to 1,052,000. In 1973, it stood at 1, 143,000. Not all of the juveniles handled in juvenile courts are referred to detention facilities; however, the increase in the number of court cases handled and the overcrowding of the facilities suggest a direct correlation: when the courts are crowded, detention facilities are crowded.
Recommended Citation
Schroers, Gail, "A Study of Linguistic Non-Immediacy in the Institutionalized World of the Juvenile Delinquent" (1977). Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects. 2412.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/2412