In re Agler

The Juvenile Court stands as a monument to the enlightened conviction that wayward boys may become good men and that society should make every effort to avoid their being attainted as criminal before growing to the full measure of adult responsibility. Its existence, together with the substantive provisions of the Juvenile Code, reflects the considered opinion of society that childish pranks and other youthful indiscretions, as well as graver *72offenses, should seldom warrant adnlt sanctions and that the decided emphasis should be upon individual, corrective treatment.

As early as 1857, the…