Vocab Words
A juvenile who has committed an act which is an offense only because of their age?
What is a status offense?
Truancy, underage drinking, and running away from home are all examples of this type of act.
What is a status offense?
What is a violent or conflictive home life?
Impacts on the offender's family.
What are financial and emotional hardship?
Three things taken into account when deciding whether to charge a juvenile as an adult.
Refers to a juvenile who has committed an act considered a crime at any age
What is a juvenile delinquent?
Juvenile delinquents are usually punished in this manner.
What is formally?
When no one is around to ensure juveniles are behaving.
What is lack of supervision?
Impacts on the community.
What are community safety, community image, and continued criminal activity?
The main difference in adult and juvenile Miranda warnings.
What is juveniles have the right to have a parent present during questioning?
This level of graduated sanctions is reserved for first-time serious offenders or violent offenders.
What are intermediate sanctions?
A person under the age of 18.
What is a minor or juvenile?
Disorderly conduct, theft, and vandalism are all examples of this type of crime.
What is juvenile delinquency?
Show me your friends and I will show you your future refers to this cause of crime.
What are external issues?
Impacts on the offender.
What are decline in mental health, stress within the family, and damage of support systems?
These are the four potential outcomes of an initial hearing.
This is where an adjudicated juvenile delinquent will spend their sentence for serious offenses.
What is long-term secure facilities?
This is a trial for juveniles.
What is an adjudicatory hearing?
Committing status offenses usually ends with a juvenile being punished in this manner.
What is informally?
When parents don't accept their children.
What is parental rejection?
Court and lawyer fees, housing, clothing, and food services.
What are monetary costs?
What is a disposition hearing?
This type of punishment is ordered by a judge and will go on your permanent record.
What is formal punishment?
Police have restrained your free movement because you are the suspect in a crime.
What is a custodial arrest?
Committing these types of crimes greatly increase your chance of being charged as an adult.
What is a felony?
This cause of crime comes from idolizing parents who have been through the criminal justice system.
What are criminal parents?
Ratio of juveniles incarcerated who attempt suicide.
What is 2 in 10?
This has to be done in order to charge the juvenile as an adult.
What is petitioning the court?
This level of graduated sanctions is reserved for first-time juvenile offenders and non-serious, repeat offenders.