Juvenile Offender Categories
The first category of delinquents are those who commit these violations.
What are criminal statutes?
This Act funded demonstration projects for delinquency prevention.
What is The Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Act of 1961?
True or False:
The juvenile justice system is female offender dominated.
What is false.
However, female offenders rose from 19% to 27% from 1991 to 2004.
Juvenile delinquency and prevention/intervention strategies are function with state funding.
What is False:
Federal funding.
Violations of criminal statutes can include which violent crimes (one correct answer is sufficient for credit)
What is murder, forcible rape, robbery, or aggravated assault?
The Act provided federal support to states for delinquency services (two answers are appropriate).
What is The Juvenile Delinquency and Control Act of 1968. Renamed the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Act of 1971.
What is sexual abuse?
___means that the juvenile is held accountable for their behavior and has a responsibility to not only repair the harm caused the victim through restitution but also to repair the harm caused the community through constructive community service.
What is balanced and restorative justice? (Media checkpoint)
The second category of delinquents are those who commit these violations.
What are property crimes?
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act marked a new era in juvenile justice policy and the right for due process. This Act called for ____ (one answer is sufficient for credit).
What is diversion of minor offenders from the juvenile court, separation of juvenile offenders from adult offenders in detention, removal of status offenders from secure detention facilities, establishment of nonsecure alternatives, or establishment of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention?
Between 1997 to 2003, these two demographic groups that comprised 61% of the "in-custody" juvenile population.
What are African American (38%) and Hispanic (19%).
Name the three concepts that rest on the principle that juveniles should be held accountable for their behaviors.
What are graduated sanctions, balanced and restorative justice and adult crime-adult time?
Violations of property crimes can include (one correct answer is sufficient for credit)
What is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, receiving/possessing stolen property, embezzlement, fraud, drug manufacturing/possession/sale, sexual offenses, or nonaggravated assault?
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention developed the Toolkit for Creating Your Own Truancy Reduction Program. The program included ____ (one correct answer is sufficient for credit).
What is a comprehensive review of issues, risk factors, legal requirements of the No Child Left Behind statute to support school attendance, direction for program development, and funding sources?
In 2005, 28% of students aged 12 to 18 reported being ____ which is considered a factor in rates of juvenile delinquency.
What is bullying?
___ means that a juvenile receives some "punishment" for each offense. The nature and severity is determined by the nature of offense and history.
What are graduated sanctions?
In 2003, violent crimes accounted for ___% of all juvenile arrests.
What is 4%?
The objective of ______ is to reduce risk factors, increase protective factors, and achieve prosocial behaviors.
What is prevention and early intervention programs? (parenting, early education, early elementary, middle and high school, specific interventions).
Juvenile use of ____ and _____ are found to contribute to rate of delinquency.
What is alcohol (43%) and illegal substances (23%)?
____ means that juveniles should experience the same punishment that adults would experience for the same offense.
What is adult crime-adult time? With consideration of age, capacity, and type of offense.