ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ways in which the new conception of the juvenile court was communicated in social interaction and accepted by groups and persons having the power and influence to make relevant legislative decisions. The first definitive resistance to the revision of the juvenile court law came to life among probation officers, who had the opportunity to examine an early draft of the law, which was mimeographed and distributed by several of their number. Closer analysis of probation officer resistance reveals that in the beginning a good deal of it could be attributed to a feeling that their integrity had been impugned and their public image blemished by assertions of members of the commission. Police resistance was total and intransigent in its organized expression, and few probation officers wanted to be identified with their extreme position. Resistance of judges to the commission's proposals was a direct response to the attack seen on the philosophical foundations of the juvenile court.
