"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.
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
bureaucracy
court
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
4.1 / 5
Crew
Frederick Wiseman
Director
Frederick Wiseman
Editor
Frederick Wiseman
Producer
Popular Reviews
8 reviews
Patrick Michael
9.6★ · 03/01/25
There’s a case manager in this doc who utters the words “hot grease” with such a piercing matter-of-factness… I’m not sure I’ve ever been so overcome by spontaneous tears.
There’s a case manager in this doc who utters the words “hot grease” with such a piercing matter-of-factness… I’m not sure I’ve ever been so overcome by spontaneous tears.
