Lesson 4

PERSONALITIES
1. Pope Clement XI – In 1704 in Rome, established the Hospital of St. Michael’s, the
first institution for the treatment of juvenile offenders. The stated purpose of the
hospital was to correct and instruct unruly youth so they might become useful
citizens.

2. Robert Young – In 1788 established the first private, separate institution for youthful
offenders in England. The goal of the institution was to educate and instruct in some
useful trade or occupation the children of convicts or such other infant poor as
engaged in a vagrant and criminal course of life.

3. Albert K. Cohen – The first man who attempted to find out the process of beginning of
the delinquent subculture.
 Kingwood Reformatory – This was established for the confinement of the
“hordes of unruly children who infested the streets of new industrial towns” of
England.

New York Committee on Pauperism – In 1818, the committee gave the term
“Juvenile Delinquency” Its first public recognition by referring it as a major
cause of pauperism.

1899 – The first Juvenile or “family” court was established in Cook County
Illinois.

1899 – 1967 – This has been referred to as the era of “socialized juvenile
justice”.