The traditional model views a juvenile's culpability can be resolved by rehabilitation, while the punitive model focused on the best interests of society.
Early 1900 until the middle of the 1960s was the conventional Juvenile Justice era. Traditional beliefs at the time about how to handle juveniles were based on the notion that they were not as accountable as adults for their offences and that the Juvenile Justice System would serve as a doctor to cure them of their misbehavior.
Most of the presumptions made about juveniles and what to do about them at this time period were still true. The realization that the JJS was not providing much in the way of rehabilitation, however, started to sink in. Although the underlying assumptions remained unchanged, the manner the system worked did.
When the rate of violent juvenile crime shot through the roof in the 1980s and people started to believe that young people were getting away with major crimes with little, if any, accountability, the punitive period in JJ began.
Changing juvenile laws were created as a result, reflecting the new ideas about both juveniles and what should be done about juvenile criminality.
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