Landmark cases- Juvenile Courts The First Cases in Juvenile Court. · After years of development and months of compromise, in 1899 the Illinois legislature passed a law permitting counties in the state to designate one or more of their circuit court judges to hear all cases involving dependent, neglected, and delinquent children younger than age 16 · In their early years, juvenile courts were focused on providing individualized decisions that were in the best interests of the children. Relying on the doctrine of parens patriae, decisions were more paternalistic than adversarial. Legal Protections. · There were few legal protections in the early juvenile court, as a consequence of the parens patriae philosophy · Rather than being protected by the Fifth Amendment, children were frequently encouraged to admit their guilt.
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