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Gang related
School daze
Doooope!
Law and Order
Little Big House
100
Group of youths who collectively engage in delinquent behaviors.
What is a gang
100
This refers to being out of school without permission.
What is a truant/truancy?
100
This is the most commonly abused drug
What is alcohol
100
Involves any justice program or policy designed to prevent the occurrence of a future delinquent act.
What is delinquency prevention or control?
100
A court-appointed attorney who protects the interests of the child in cases involving the child’s welfare.
What is a guardian ad litem?
200
A Latino word meaning neighborhood.
What is a barrio?
200
Mandating specific consequences or punishments for delinquent acts, and not allowing anyone to avoid these consequences.
What is a "zero tolerance policy"
200
A substance that leads to use of more serious drugs
What is a gateway drug?
200
The fact-finding process wherein the juvenile court determines whether there is sufficient evidence to sustain the allegations in a petition.
What is an Adjudicatory hearing or adjudication?
200
Restricting information in juvenile court proceedings in the interest of protecting the privacy of the juvenile.
What is confidentiality?
300
Refers to tossing or flashing gang signs in the presence of rivals, often escalating into a verbal or physical confrontation.
What is "representing"?
300
Legal term for rights given to schools that allow them to assume parental duties in disciplining students.
What is in loco parentis?
300
Lab-made drugs designed to avoid existing drug laws
What is a designer drug?
300
Document filed in juvenile court alleging that a juvenile is a delinquent
What is a petition?
300
Non-punitive, legal disposition of juveniles emphasizing community treatment, in which the juvenile is closely supervised by an officer of the court
What is probation?
400
Inner-city areas of extreme poverty where the critical social control mechanisms have broken down.
What is a disorganized neighborhood?
400
Repeated, negative acts committed by one or more children against another, which may be physical or verbal.
What is bullying?
400
Natural or synthetic substances that produce vivid distortions of the senses, and a great way to kill a Criminal Justice career before it starts.
What is a hallucinogen?
400
Police strategy that emphasizes fear reduction, community organization, and order maintenance rather than crime fighting.
What is community policing?
400
Institutions in which educational and psychological services are used in an effort to improve the conduct of juveniles who are forcibly detained.
What is a reform school?
500
These are social workers who go out into the community and establish close relationships with juvenile gangs with the goal of modifying gang behavior
What is a "detached street worker"
500
A form of expression protected by the First Amendment, but not associated with actually speaking words
What is passive speech?
500
Method of treating addiction by addressing a variety of family, peer, and psychological problems
What is multisystemic treatment?
500
Use of personal decision making and choice in carrying out operations in the criminal justice system
What is discretion?
500
Counseling program in which peer leaders encourage other group members to modify their behavior, and peers help reinforce acceptable behaviors.
What is positive peer culture?