ABSTRACT
Anomalies are objective phenomena, which can be brought to light by critical research or comprehensive appreciation of all possible consequences of patterns of action. The accumulation of anomalies is a prerequisite to crisis and social action for change, but not the determiner. Although social action revolved around procedures of the juvenile courts of the state, it is incorrect to conclude that they alone were the issue, or that any one issue activated ultimate change in the law. Social action for change emerged primarily within the context of the legal-rights issue. The question of the legal rights of juveniles can be discussed most effectively in a larger historical and nation-wide context, with specific attention directed to the various factors that molded the professional opinion of jurists, lawyers, and legally informed persons in the state. The California law revision commission was created in 1958, and among the laws given to it for study were those of the juvenile court.
