Diversion Decisions
This type of informal sanction is the least punitive and includes warnings.
What is nominal disposition?
These courts use peers to judge and sentence juvenile offenders.
What are Teen Courts?
This is the most common used sanction by juvenile courts.
What is probation?
This is a secure, short-term holding facility for youth.
What is a juvenile detention center?
This home-based monitoring method often pairs with EM.
What is home confinement?
The main goal of diversion is to prevent this negative cycle.
What is recidivism?
In this teen court model, youth fill all roles, including the judge.
What is the Youth Judge Model?
This type of probation has no incarceration or heavy restrictions.
What is unconditional probation?
These facilities act as transitional housing after secure confinement.
What is a boot camp?
The voice recognition method used to confirm a juvenile's presence.
What is speaker ID?
This 1974 law aimed to deinstitutionalize status offenders.
What is the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act?
This type of court is designed to help juveniles with substance abuse.
What is drug court?
Juvenile ISPs often monitor this many clients or fewer.
What is 30 clients?
One major issue in juvenile confinement, involving unequal racial representation.
What is Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC)?
This early EM technology was adopted by New Mexico in 1983.
What is continuous-signal monitoring?
Diversion works best on this type of offender.
What is a first-time offender?
One benefit of teen courts is that they emphasize this form of justice.
What is restorative justice?
Programs like EM and home confinement are examples of this.
What are intermediate punishments?
A confinement type emphasizing discipline, modeled after the military.
What is boot camp?
One major constitutional concern raised by electronic monitoring.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
One downside of diversion that refers to unnecessarily involving more youth.
What is net-widening?
This Alaska-based teen court reports a recidivism rate under 11%.
What is Anchorage Youth Court?
Probation that focuses on results like compliance and reduced recidivism.
What is outcome-focused probation?
The ultimate goal of juvenile corrections.
What is preventing reoffending?
This type of electronic monitoring device allows real-time 24/7 location tracking using satellites.
What is GPS monitoring?