News Scrapbook 1986
isi!: 1g Chinese Log Time in Court aq~ Want to See How U.S. Treats Youths Who Get in Trouble f9~ _......,~ · By JIM SCH CHTER, In China, Yang said through Times Staff rite-r 1merpreter Chen Jinya, "the stand- The hinese visitors had never seen anyt mg I t. ard of what is crime is quite different."
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China has been formalizing its legal system under the reformist regime, m power since the late 1970s, and juvenile just.lee is no exception. As part of an ongoing exchange with the Uniyerai•~r Elt S.,an Diego School of Law, the Chinese lawyers came to San Diego to observe firsthand how Amencan ~ourts and law enforcement agen. c1es address juvenile delinquen- cy-in part to get ideas about paths along which Chinese institutions can evolve. "They want to see how we deal with kids who get in trouble with the law," Judith McConnell, pre- siding judge of the Juvenile Court, explained to a group of 19 Juvenile Hall detainees who unexpectedly shared a lunch of tamale pie and Much of the American system looked familiar to the Chinese, who also split up to ride the streets with PleaN tee VISIT, Pa e4 refried beaM w1th the Clunese attorneys.
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Two sisters, 15 and 16, were on tnal Thursday morning in San Diego County Juvenile Court, ac- cused-among other things-of b1tmg the hand of their hlgh school pnncipal as he tned to break up a schoolyard fight. Their mother. s1ttmg in the front row of the courtroom gallery, tned to get the VlSJtors' attention. "Am I allowed to talk to these people so they will know there is no justice for black people in this country?" she asked. But the request went untranslat- ed-Just one more thing the guests, five high-ranking Chinese e:xperu on Juvenile deljpqneQ"Y, could not understand dunog their weeklong v1s1t to San Diego. "Such cases like beating a person or a fight we probably will not bnng mto court," said the head of the delegat10n. Yang Chunxi. a law professor and vice president of Yantai University in Peking. In-
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Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co) Times (San Diego Ed.) (Cir. D 50 010) (Cir. S 55,573)
BARBARA llAR'llN I Loo Anpl• nm. Yang Chunxi, delegation head. stead, they would be handled through neighborhood mediation or resolved informally.
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a San Diego police heulenant or walk through res1denual centers for delinquent youth E~rlier m the week, they v1s1te San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454) 11986 llllm.', P c B 1 , San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454) BARBARA MARTIN / Loa Alli• I Univ rsity~ Ukgo'.s ~n- stitute !or Chnsha~ wtll _in- crease its course om rune to 24 beginning next ptember and include cour ·es in scripture and the- ology pa toral v1s1tations, counsel- rn and other subjects. A certificate program m religion and ministry s ills will be available for laymen on a part-time study basis. Among the vis1tmg faculty will be the Rev Eu- gene La Verdiere of Emmanuel mag- azine; the Rev lichael Scanlon of the Washmgton Theologica I Umon in Washington, D.C.; Dr. Gloria Durka of Fordham; Sister Carolyn Osiek of th Chicago Theological Union; and the Rev. Richard Rohr of the New Jeru alem Community in Cincinnati. Sister J.rene Cullen 1s program coo/ dinator / I Juvenile Hall detainees in an attempt to more about juvenile delinquenc-r in Am Interpreter Chen Jinya, second from left, and delegation head Yang Chunxi, right, lunch with table, Yang asked several young- sters if they thought the smgle rooms they are assigned al the hall were preferable to the 10-man bunks at most Chinese work-study centers. "Good juveniles," Chen said after lunch. as h~ walked thro1 J uvenil~ ,Uall recreat10n root admired a Ping-Pong tabl~ recalled an earlier stage o• nC'se-American cultural exd "Very good JUVemlc8 I hope to talk to Lhem more." ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• . . ... .,. -- . - • • Juvenile courts in the late 19th Century, the Chinese place a heavy emphaela on identifying and root- ing out the underlying causes or delinquency. In their conference papers, the Chinese lawyers S(><)ke repeatedly of lhe importance of crafting B healthy social environ- ment, free of the bad influences of pre-communist culture and pro- tected from the "hedonistic" influ- ences of China's mcreasing contact with the West. Young people can take two paths, said Wang Luosheng, depu- ty president of the Care £,'or Juven- ile Education Assn. of Pek mg There 1s the "upward path ." he said, where youngsters acquire a "correct world outlook and view of hfe." And there 1s a "downward path"-which may sound ram1har to Ame,1can parents-in which kids develop "lazmess. dete8table taste and unprincipled des1r s," Wangsa1d. According to Feld, the Chines 's focus on the moral redemption of youngsters who have Laken the wrong path 1s a marked contrast Lo American practice "They have a much greater confidence m what they're lrymg to produce in their people," J<~eld said. "We in this country have an extraordinary emphas1S on individ- ualism ind the rights of individuals, both adults and juveniles, and an insecurity about our cultural val- ues.It Though translator Chen said the Chinese were shocked by the ex- treme youth of the offenders they saw at Juvenile Hall-children 13 and younger among them-they nonetheless were impressed by the boys they met at lunch Thursday. Al one table, a red-headed boy explained the daily schedule at Juvenile Hall to Wong. At another 1 ---- .._ l/_fleri's P. C B I 1 I~ 1 "J3ible expert Brown first of 5 speakers in lTSD summer series The Rev.~E. Brown, a Roman Catholr!h1blical scholar, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Man- chester Conference Center at the Univwit)( ot Safi Diego in the first of five ~mmer lectures to be spon- sored by the USD continuing educa- tion office. His announced topic is "The Prob- lem of Unity and Diversity in the Early Church and What It Means Today." Brown is professor of biblical stud- ies at Union Theological Seminary in New York. The second lecture will l>e at 7 p.m. June 24 by the Rev. Joseph M. Powers, professor of systematic the- ology at the Jesuit School of Theolo- g in Berkeley. Powers will discuss the Holy Eu~harist. The Rev John A. Sanford, a psy- chothernpist, will speak on "The Un- conscious and the Spiritual Malaise of Our Time" at 7 pm. July 1. Sanford, former rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, is the au- thor of "The Kingdom Within," "The Invisible Partners" and other books. Trappist monk Basil Pennington of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Mass., will speak on "A Centered Life" at 7 p.m. July 7-9. The final lecture wHI be at 7 p.m. July 10 by the Rev. John Futrell of Gonzaga University in Spokane who will discuss Christian ministry and ;.,--service. • • I • • = • • I • • • • • • • • • • • 1t l8 ia :e i, la
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