Abstract
Critics of the contemporary juvenile court have claimed that its failure to make rehabilitative dispositions necessitates extending to children the same constitutional safeguards accorded to adults accused of crime. Supporters of the court argue that its exercise of the parental function of the state (parens patriae) generally works in the child's behalf and therefore lessens the need to define and protect the constitutional rights of juvenile delinquents.
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