People are pressured by close friends or others to commit crimes.
What is peer pressure?
100
The police officers must complete psychological and physical tests as well as having their backgrounds checked before becoming police officers.
What is police training?
100
Any act that a person commits that breaks the law and that there will be consequences being faced for breaking it.
What is a crime?
100
When a judge listens to the the evidence given by both sides.
What is a juvenile hearing?
100
Crimes which include murder,manslaughter,aggravated assault,and etc.
What are crimes against a person?
200
People that turn to gangs seeking for acceptance because of unstable house conditions.
What is gang membership?
200
Police officers prevent crime,protect a persons life and property,protect each individuals rights,control traffic,maintain peace, and take care /arrest people who break laws.
What are the duties of a police officer?
200
Breaking laws that are less serious.
What is a misdemeanor?
200
When the person is placed in a home to be adopted by someone else other than the people who have taken responsibility of the child before.
What is foster care?
200
Crimes include robbery, arson,forgery,and etc.
What are crimes against property?
300
Homes where the parents do not take responsibility of the child,they are not home for most of the time,or the parents have addictions to intoxicants.
What is poor house conditions?
300
Police officers must have enough evidence or witness the crime to arrest someone.
What is a probable cause?
300
Serious crimes.
What are felonies?
300
A place where the juvenile is sent if the case us serious.
What are juvenile corrections?
300
Crimes that only harm him or herself and not others.
What are victimless crimes?
400
A young person who gets addicted to drugs and alcohol and turns to crime to help make money to pay for their addiction.
What is alcohol and drugs?
400
Lets the person ( who has been arrested) know what their rights and how they (the rights) are protected by the Bill of Rights.
What is a Miranda right?
400
When the defendant pleas not guilty or guilty to the charge.
What is an arraignment?
400
A length of time where the juvenile is given a chance to improve.
What is probation?
400
Nonviolent crimes.
What are white collar crimes?
500
When a person has nothing to do and turns to crime due to the fact they dropped out of school . This leads a person to not get an ordinary/good money making job.
What is dropping out of school and unemployment?
500
When the police writes down the person who is believed to commit the crime and writes down what time the arrest was made and all the charges the person is being faced with.
What is booking?
500
when the jury must find/know if the person (who is getting convicted for the crime) is guilty or not.
What is an acquit?
500
When there are workers allocated to a juvenile to give them the care and the attention they need.