Hear Ye, Hear Ye
Written order requiring an individual to appear in court
What is a subpoena
Sentencing alternative requires offenders to spend at least some of their time working for a community agency?
What is Community Service.
A child that does not receive proper care from parents or guardians.
What is a neglected child.
Prison argot
What is prison slang?
Community service and home detention are examples of what type of sentencing?
What is Alternative Sentencing
First step in the juvenile justice system
What is Intake
Formal written accusation submitted to the court by a grand jury alleging a person committed a felony?
What is an Indictment
Period of conditional supervised release in the community following a prison term.
What is Parole
An act that is declared by statute to be an offense but only when committed by a juvenile, such as truancy
What is a Status Offense
Prison process used to determine what treatment and other programs are needed by an inmate upon arrival?
What is Classification
Sentencing of a minimum of 4 and not more than 8 years in prison
What is Indeterminate Sentencing
Jury that is isolated from the public and removed from outside influences
What is a sequestered jury
Pretrial release of individuals arrested for serious crimes based on a written agreement to appear in court as required
What is Release on recognizance
Authority that issues Parole
What is a Parole Board
In 1899 was the first state to create the first Juvenile Court Act that applied the term delinquent instead of criminal to juvenile offenders and the betterment of the child was a priority
What is Illinois
Primary objective of the juvenile courts?
What is rehabilitation
Sentencing goal that emphasizes taking revenge on offenders?
What is Retribution
Court writ that directs the person detaining a prisoner to bring that prisoner before a judge to determine the lawfulness of the imprisonment
What is a Writ of Habeus Corpus
American criminal trial courts operate under this structure?
What is an adversarial system
Type of profession of John Augustus who is known as the Father of Probation and took in offenders as an alternative to prison
What is a bootmaker
The common law principle that allows the State to assume parental control and take custody of the delinquent or abandoned child?
What is Parens’ Patriae
An early American system of imprisonment that emphasized solitary confinement and saw penance as the way to rehabilitation?
What is the Pennsylvania System
To shorten a sentence, an inmate receives what when they participate in projects, programs and work inside the prison
What is Gain time
Passed by Congress in 2003, what is required by prisons to share and collect data about certain types of assaults in prisons called PREA
What is the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
Complaints of prison conditions by inmates, which are brought under the 8th Amendment, must show what by prison officials?
What is deliberate indifference
Courts complete this before sentencing that could include the offenders past history including family history, criminal friends, substance abuse, and school/work performance.
What is a Pre-Sentence Investigation
Landmark US Supreme court case guaranteed juveniles many of the same procedural due process rights as adults?
What is In Re Gault
Inmate organization whose members act together to pose a threat to corrections staff ?
What is a Security Threat Group
Sentencing goal that attempts to make the victim and community “whole again.”
What is Restorative Sentencing
Type of evidence that proves a fact without requiring the judge to draw inferences.
What is Direct Evidence