Juvenile Court

(1973)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 22 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1973

Runtime: 144 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Plot

"Juvenile Court" shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court.