Abstract

The article focuses on some reflections of Tony Platt on the changes in the North American juvenile justice system from its beginnings to the new millennium. In particular, it emphasises that the author remains faithful in his recent works to the interpretation of social control as a means of class domination that he developed under the influence of radical criminology in The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency. Notably, Platt does not believe that the serious problems of the American juvenile justice system, with its dramatically punitive policies, are also due to resistance in accepting the culture of children’s rights