Assignment:
Law professor Barry C. Field contends that creating a separate juvenile court system has resulted in unanticipated negative consequences for America's children and for justice.
Take an either for or against stance to this argument. Discuss the good and bad points of these arguments.
Article:
Child Murder Committed by Severely Mentally Ill
Mothers: An Examination of Mothers Found Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity
Susan Hatters Friedman,1 M.D.; Debra R. Hrouda,1 M.S.S.A.; Carol E. Holden,2 Ph.D.;
Stephen G. Noffsinger,3 M.D.; and Phillip J. Resnick,1 M.D.
J Forensic Sci, Nov. 2005, Vol. 50, No. 6