Juvenile Justice: Educating Through Punishment, Punishing Through Education

Juvenile justice embodies one of the major questions facing our "21st-century justice system." The idea of a certain "judicial determinism"-reflected in the fact that so-called "dangerous" juveniles were often at risk themselves during their childhood-is a mechanism that legal professionals continually strive to overcome. This ongoing interplay between protection and repression, between supervision and punishment, presents a genuine challenge. Educating through punishment, punishing through education-such is the contemporary dialectic of juvenile justice, whose temporal nature represents one of the most pressing issues.