Juvenile Protective Association

(noun)

A private non-profit agency in Chicago devoted to protecting children from abuse and neglect by providing intervention and treatment services to families. The JPA was created in 1907 through the merger of two Progressive Era organizations and is still in existence today.

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Examples of Juvenile Protective Association in the following topics:

  • Progressives and the Working Class

    • In 1901, Jane Addams founded the Juvenile Protective Association, a nonprofit agency dedicated to protecting children from abuse.

  • Elements of Reform

    • They thus created institutions to monitor city governments. 3)To protect laborers, children, and mothers with labor regulations and social provision.
    • In 1901, Jane Addams founded the Juvenile Protective Association, a non-profit agency dedicated to protecting children from abuse.
    • Inspired by crusading Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver, cities established juvenile courts to deal with disruptive teenagers without sending them to adult prisons.
    • In the legal profession, the American Bar Association set up in 1900 the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

  • Differential Association Theory

    • One very unique aspect of this theory is that it works to explain more than just juvenile delinquency and crime committed by lower class individuals.

  • Maternalist Reform

    • The women at Hull House actively campaigned to persuade Congress to pass legislation to protect children.
    • Lathrop helped found the country's first juvenile court in 1899, and the Chicago Woman's Club established the Juvenile Court Committee (electing Lathrop as its first president in 1903) to pay the salaries of fifteen probation officers and run a detention home located at 625 West Adams Street.

  • Abnormal Curves of the Vertebral Column

    • Scoliosis is typically classified as either congenital (caused by vertebral anomalies present at birth), idiopathic (cause unknown, subclassified as infantile, juvenile, adolescent, or adult, according to when onset occurred), or neuromuscular (having developed as a secondary symptom of another condition, such as spina bifida, cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, or physical trauma).
    • A 50-year follow-up study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (2003) asserts that the lifelong physical health (including cardiopulmonary and neurological functions) and mental health of idiopathic scoliosis patients are comparable to those of the general population.

  • Women's Activism

    • Gage, of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), embodied the radicalism of much second-wave feminism.
    • The members of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), for example, were willing to work within the political system, and they chose to unite with sympathetic men in power to promote the cause of suffrage.
    • Her opposition to women taking an active role in politics was based on her belief that the neglect of motherhood was a primary cause of juvenile delinquency.

  • The Campaign for Suffrage

    • Beginning around 1900, this broad movement began at the grassroots level with such goals as combating corruption in government, eliminating child labor, and protecting workers and consumers.
    • In 1911, the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage was created.
    • It argued that woman suffrage, "would reduce the special protections and routes of influence available to women, destroy the family, and increase the number of socialist-leaning voters."
    • The best organized movement was the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NYSAOWS).
    • Men looking in the window of the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters.

  • Gender Dysphoria

    • According to the American Psychological Association, transgender children are more likely to experience harassment and violence in school, foster care, residential treatment centers, homeless centers, and juvenile justice programs than other children.

  • The Sixth Amendment and Jury Trials

    • The Supreme Court has applied the protections of this amendment to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
    • Also, in the United States, except for serious offenses (such as murder), minors are usually tried in a juvenile court, which lessens the sentence allowed, but forfeits the right to a jury.

  • Two Judicial Revolutions: The Rehnquist Court and the Roberts Court

    • William Rehnquist served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, and later as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States.
    • Gore, the case that effectively ended the presidential election controversy in Florida, that the Equal Protection Clause barred a standard-less manual recount of the votes as ordered by the Florida Supreme Court.
    • The Rehnquist Court's congruence and proportionality standard made it easier to revive older precedents preventing Congress from going too far in enforcing equal protection of the laws.
    • Roberts took the Constitutional oath of office, administered by senior Associate Justice John Paul Stevens at the White House, on September 29, 2005, almost immediately after his confirmation.