ABSTRACT
The juvenile justice commission adopted the view or ideal that a greater measure of juvenile justice would follow from installing uniform procedures in juvenile courts, that is, treating all minors and parents in the same way. A number of considerations argue that advocacy is more, rather than less, necessary to justice in juvenile courts than is true in adult criminal courts. Administrative remedies in themselves are equally questionable methods for dealing directly with many problems now falling within juvenile court jurisdiction. Criticisms of the juvenile court and the vagueness of its ideology of "individualized" treatment leave an impression that dispositions of cases in these courts are grossly inconsistent and arbitrary. The startling innovations in automatic data-processing and computerized communications make their application to the rationalization of juvenile court operations a considered possibility. Furthermore, "judicalizing" the juvenile court procedure may sacrifice the welfare or "real interests" of the child in a certain number of cases.
