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Another viewpoint.
In the late sixties, while working as a Juvenile Probation Officer, I attended a seminar on the draft of a Bill, called the Young Offenders Act (YOA), which was meant to remedy the problems with the Juvenile Delinquents Act (JDA) under which we worked at the time. The JDA worked in the sense that troubled youngsters (my youngest probationer was seven years old) received supervision and other assistance such as court-ordered psychiatric treatment through the benign paternali...
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