Juvenile Court

The Complex Cases at the Memphis Juvenile Court

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.

"Literally and figuratively, Wiseman opens the doors of perception in the daily routine of a juvenile court... (A) master educator, (he) refuses to preach or even teach, but we learn -- and are immeasurably enriched by the experience." - Jerrold Hickey, The Boston Globe