title: Assisting the status offender.
abstract: System change has not kept pace with the accumulating evidence that subjecting the status offender to judicial sanctions is both unfair and unhelpful. Principal arguments for change are presented here, as well as the principal arguments of those opposing removal of the status offender from court jurisdiction.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003416:Criminal Law; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D014481:United States