Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Role of Parents and Parens Patriae: Developing Views of Legitimacy and Justice in Juvenile Delinquency Court

博士论文研究：父母和父母的角色：在少年犯罪法庭中发展合法性和正义的观点

• 批准号: 1060009
• 负责人: Amy Farrell
• 金额: $ 0.69万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1060009&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Role; Parents

Participating in the juvenile court process and sharing legal experiences with family members may influence how parents and children view the justice system's ability to treat all people fairly. This research examines whether parents, with a child accused of committing a crime, experience the court system as fair and effective and how views of legitimacy and justice may be developed within families. Building on prior work on legal consciousness and procedural justice, this qualitative study will follow twenty families who have a child entering the justice system on a new charge of delinquency. Multiple members of each family, including the juvenile and his or her parents, will be interviewed at different times during the juvenile court process. Interviews will be supplemented by observations of court proceedings and meetings with defense attorneys. This study focuses on two courts located in urban, historically disadvantaged communities, areas that have been disproportionately represented in the juvenile justice system. This research will extend previous work in legal consciousness by exploring whether the non-voluntary character of criminal law renders legal experiences more salient and meaningful. The element of coercion is especially pertinent for parents in juvenile court because parents are compelled into legal interaction for either the good of the child or the best interests of society. Through its longitudinal nature, this study can capture and explain change, conceiving of legal consciousness as an emergent and interactive process rather than a stable state of thinking or acting. This research extends procedural justice literature by using qualitative methods to examine how perceptions of the legal system's legitimacy evolve throughout the course of a legal proceeding and the role of family interaction in developing and maintaining views of law and justice.

参与少年法庭的审理过程并与家庭成员分享法律的经验可能会影响父母和子女如何看待司法系统公平对待所有人的能力。 这项研究审查了父母在子女被控犯罪时是否认为法院系统是公平和有效的，以及家庭内部如何形成合法性和正义的观点。 建立在以前的工作，法律的意识和程序正义，本定性研究将遵循20个家庭谁有一个孩子进入司法系统的一个新的指控犯罪。 在少年法庭审理过程中，每个家庭的多名成员，包括少年及其父母，将在不同时间接受采访。 访谈将辅以对法庭诉讼程序的观察和与辩护律师的会晤。 这项研究的重点是两个法院位于城市，历史上处于不利地位的社区，地区已不成比例地代表在少年司法系统。 本研究借由探讨刑法的非自愿性是否使法律的经验更显着且更有意义，来延伸先前在法律的意识方面的研究。在少年法庭上，胁迫因素对父母尤其重要，因为父母被迫为了儿童的利益或社会的最大利益而进行法律的互动。 通过纵向研究，本研究可以捕捉和解释变化，将法律的意识视为一个新兴的和互动的过程，而不是一个稳定的思维或行动状态。 本研究扩展了程序正义文献，采用定性的方法来研究如何在整个法律的诉讼过程中的法律的系统的合法性的看法演变和家庭互动的作用，在发展和维护法律和正义的观点。