What is the 2 basic sections of Law?
Criminal and Civil law
What is laws passed by law making bodies (congress)?
Statutory law
What is a Juvenile?
A "young person"
What is the Bill of Rights?
The first 10 Amendments
What decribes how a person is accused of a crime will be tried in court and how they'll be punished?
Criminlal Law
What is a type of law that comes from judges' decisions that rely on precedent?
Common law
True/false
Poor home conditions, gang membership, dropping of school, achohol and drugs, and peer pressure are all reasons of Juvenile Crime
True
What are the 1st and 2nd Amendments?
1st: The freedom of religion, speech, petition, press, and assembly
2nd: The right to bear arms (guns)
What is the group of laws that refers to disputes between people?
Civil law
What are laws that that affect our daily lives and are created by the government agencies instead of legislatures?
Administrative law
A young person who commits a crime
What are the 3rd, 4th, and 5th amendments?
3rd: Soldiers don't have to quarter (shelter) in your home
4th: searches and seizers
5th: the right to a fair trial
What is any behavior that is illeagal because it's harmful to society?
Crime
What law is based on the U.S. constitution?
Constitutional law
True/false
Foster care, juvenile corrections, probation, and counseling are all treatment or punishment of juvenile crime
True
What 6th, 7th, and 8th, amendments?
6th: the right to a speedy trial
7th: the right to a trial by jury in civil courts
8th: prohibits bail, fine, cruel and unusaull punishment
What is this an example of? Contract disputes, divorce, property bounderies.
Civil law
What are Statutory law, Common law, Administrative law, and Constitutional law?
Sources of law
What do Juveniles have instead of trials?
Hearings
What are the 9th and 10th amendments?
9th: acknoledges that there are rights not listed in the constitution
10th: gives rights not listed in the constution to states and people