尽管直到本世纪六十年代,联邦政府才直接干预少年恶行预防规划,但十九世纪的政策制订者们即已逐渐地对一般性的少年司法问题抱有兴趣,并就此承担了某些责任。不过,最初的官方努力始于地方与州一级。联邦政府直到二十世纪才涉足少年司法领域。一、殖民地时期至1908年殖民者并未否认青少年越轨行为的存在,但他们也未曾作过预防此类行为的任何努力。 Although it was not until the 1960s that the federal government intervened directly in the prevention of juvenile evildoers, policy makers in the nineteenth century were gradually becoming more interested in general juvenile justice issues and took some responsibility for that . However, the initial official efforts began at the local and state levels. The federal government did not get into juvenile justice until the twentieth century. First, during the colonial period until 1908, the colonialists did not deny the existence of adolescent deviance, but they did not make any efforts to prevent such acts.