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Mixed lessons
Civil and criminal laws
100
Laws that involve a written agreement of some sort.
What is Contract law?
100
The least serious type of crime; minor crime for which a person can be fined a small sum of money or jailed for up to a year.
What is a misdemeanor?
100
To correct a person's behavior.
What does it mean to rehabilitate a person?
100
The procedure used to determine the facts in a juvenile case.
What is adjudication hearings?
100
Laws that include everyone.
What are civil laws?
200
Document that tells that the defendant that they’re being sued and brought to court.
What is a summons?
200
A type of crime more serious than a misdemeanor, such as murder, rape, kidnapping, or robbery.
What are felonies?
200
A child or teenager who commits a serious crime or repeatedly breaks the law.
What is a juvenile delinquent?
200
A juvenile court process that is much like a preliminary hearing in adult criminal law?
What is detention hearing?
300
A lack of proper care and attention.
What is negligence?
300
A state's written criminal laws.
What is a penal code?
300
A youth who has committed an offense punishable by criminal processes.
What is a delinquent offender?
300
The final settlement and sentencing in a juvenile case.
What is disposition hearing?
400
The person in a civil case who claims to have been harmed; person who files a lawsuit.
What is a plaintiff?
400
The questioning of a witness at a trial or hearing to check or discredit the witness's testimony.
What is cross examination?
400
A youth charged with being beyond the control of his or her legal guardian.
What are status offenders?
400
The process in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty to a less serious crime in order to receive a lighter sentence?
What is plea bargaining?
500
The person in a civil case who is said to have caused the harm; the person who is being sued.
What is a defendant?
500
The government in its role as the party who starts the legal proceedings against someone accused of a crime.
What is a prosecution?
500
Taking charge of someone in an official way.
What does it mean to take custody?
500
A court case?
What is a trial?
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