Research on Youth Law (Revised Edition)

Author: Huang Rongkang
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The issue of minors is an ancient topic. China has had the concept of caring for children since the Xia Dynasty, but this idea has not yet formed a system. Through the long feudal society, traditional Confucian culture has accumulated for over a thousand years, but the objectification of minors remains the mainstream consciousness, and the protection of civil rights and interests of minors is shrouded in the atmosphere of minors as objects. When juvenile delinquency evolved and gradually became one of the world's three major public hazards, the juvenile justice system in capitalist societies had already a hundred-year history. In 1899, the old capitalist country of the United States, Illinois, formulated the Partial Juvenile Court Law, and the same year, the Cook County (County) of Chicago established a juvenile court, which can be regarded as the birthmark of the juvenile justice system in human society. The social significance and impact of the emergence of the juvenile justice system are far-reaching. The United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention called the juvenile justice system the "crown of the modern legal system." The famous American jurist Pound praised it as the "greatest invention in the history of justice since the Magna Carta."