HISTORY OF POLICE INTERACTION WITH JUVENILES
CURRENT ROLE OF POLICE IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
Police Discretion with Juveniles
Constitutional Rights for Juveniles
Police Methods to Prevent Juvenile Crime
PROACTIVE POLICE METHODS OF PREVENTING JUVENILE CRIME
100

For centuries, the control and socialization of juveniles were based on what idea?

What is "it takes a village to raise a child"?

100

Police officers also deal with a variety of non criminal juvenile offenses or ____________

What are status offenses?

100

What are the Two type of police interaction with juveniles?

What are informal and formal

100

What was it called when the courts left juvenile facilities alone to handle administrative issues?

What is the Hands-off doctrine?

100

What is the primary goal of juvenile justice and criminal justice systems?

What is to curtail offending behavior?

100

__________ ____________ produced a reduction in calls for service and youth homicide, and an increase in recovery of illegal firearms.

What is operation ceasefire?

200

_____________ officers were hired specifically to communicate with runaways and truants, and to patrol locations—often crime-ridden—where these juveniles were likely to hide.

What are female officers?

200

Law enforcement officers often act as ____________ ______________ when dealing with many juveniles.

What are social workers?

200

Counseling involving parents/guardians to focus on behavior is an example of what type of police interaction with policing?

What is informal?

200

When did the US Supreme Court clarified constitutional rights for both adult and juvenile offenders?

What is the 1960's?

200

What are the benefits of curtailing offending behavior?

What is: 

  • reduce resources needed to supervise offenders

  • free up resources to provide a better quality of life for at-risk populations

200
Name 2 services that School Resource Officers provide. 

What is:

  • Provide Law Enforcement Services

  • Act as community liaisons 

  • Teach substance abuse/gang intervention classes

  • Mentors

  • Facilitate Community Service Projects

  • Serve as a positive presence at schools (If done correctly)

300

These officers were assigned to more crime-infested districts, employment agencies were designated for young men, and relief programs provided resources to poor children.

What are Welfare officers?

300

Law enforcement officers may be called to help youths for what 3 types of non criminal situations?

What are: 

  • an abusive or neglectful situation

  • find relevant social services

  • provide temporary foster care or even medical treatment

300

Being placed in Secure Juvenile Detention Facility to await hearing/trial is an example of what type of police interaction with juveniles?

What is formal?

300

Which Constitutional right protects one’s privacy against unreasonable search and seizure?

What is the fourth amendment?

300

What three areas does Law Enforcement attempt to deter juvenile crime?

What are: 

  • The Community

  • Schools

  • Gangs

300

This program, implemented in schools across America in 1991, was meant to counteract the attraction of gang membership.

What is the G.R.E.A.T. program?

400

Who implemented the first Juvenile Bureau and when was it implemented?

Who is Chief August Vollmer in 1914?

400

The extent of an officer’s ___________ and __________ training influences the type and quality of police–youth interaction as well.

What are education and ethical training?

400

Booked and fingerprinted is an example of what type of police interaction with a juvenile?

What is formal?

400

What Amendments address due process and equal protection rights afforded to a juvenile in regard to interrogation and confession?

What are the fourth and fifth amendment?

400

What are Efforts to control juvenile crime by forming positive relationships with organizations that serve juveniles, as well as police trying to help parents and youths feel comfortable working with law enforcement?

What are Community Based Interventions?

400

This program is a temporary intervention to address a specific gang issue and is not the primary responsibility of the police, but officers are involved in a gang detail and gang unit. In a gang detail, officers are pulled from juvenile, detective, or other units to work on gang issues.

What is the Youth Service Program?

500

Which organizations created standards and procedures for those working with juveniles and started empirical research on training and programming?

What are The Central States Juvenile Officers Association and the International Juvenile Officers Association?

500

Name the categories that The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) organizes police–juvenile interactions into.

What are 

  • Youth-initiated contact 

  • Police-initiated contact 

  • Contact resulting in arrest 

  • Victimization


500

What allows an officer to use discretion in handling an event informally or referring a case to the juvenile court?

What is police discretion?

500

What must happen for the fifth amendment to be in effect?

What is: Questioning must take place when juveniles are in police custody and they don’t feel free to leave. 

500

This program that has been used to recover hundreds of missing children, it was initiated by Dallas–Fort Worth broadcasters in 1996 after the abduction and murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman.

What is the Amber-alert system?

500

The Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project (GVRP) used 5 core elements from which program?


What is the Comprehensive Gang Model

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