The Constitutional Rights of Children : In Re Gault and Juvenile Justice
Language: English
Published by University Press of Kansas, 2011
Series: Book 46 of 86 - Landmark Law Cases and American Society
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- Title
- The Constitutional Rights of Children : In Re Gault and Juvenile Justice
- Author
- Tanenhaus, David S.
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0700618147
- ISBN 13
- 9780700618149
- Item weight
- 0.542 pounds
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- Series
- Book 46 of 86: Landmark Law Cases and American Society
Even in a nation fed up with juvenile delinquency, that sentence seemed over the top and inspired a spirited defence on Gault's behalf. 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.
Placing this case within the context of its changing times, David Tanenhaus shows how the ACLU litigated Gault by questioning the Progressive Era assumption that juvenile courts should not follow criminal procedure. He then takes readers to the Supreme Court to fully explore the oral arguments and examine how the Court came to decide Gault, focusing on Justice Fortas's majority opinion, concurring opinions, Justice Potter Stewart's lone dissent, and initial responses to the decision.
The book explores the contested legacy of Gault, charting changes and continuity in juvenile justice within the contexts of the ascendancy of conservative constitutionalism and Americans' embrace of mass incarceration as a penal strategy. An epilogue about Redding v. Safford--a 2009 decision involving a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl, also from Arizona, who was forced to undress because she was suspected of hiding drugs in her underwear--reminds us why Gault is of lasting consequence.
Gault is a story of revolutionary constitutionalism that also reveals the tenacity of localism in American legal history. Tanenhaus's meticulous explication raises troubling questions about how local communities treat their children as it confirms the importance of the Supreme Court's decisions about the constitutional rights of minors.
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