History of Juvenile Policing
Police and Juvenile Offenders and Violent Crime
Police and Rule of Law
Police Work and Delinquency Prevention
Court Cases
100

Early English system in which neighbors protected each other from thieves and warring groups.

What is Pledge System?

100

Police strategy that emphasizes fear reduction, community organization, and order maintenance rather than crime fighting.


What is Community Policing?

100

Police methods of investigation and control are inclusive of these 

What are the arrest procedure, search and seizure, and custodial interrogation. 

100

targeting gang areas and arresting members for any law violations but not proven to be effective against gangs

What is Saturation Patrol?

100

Court limited a police officer’s ability to search a vehicle for evidence

What is Arizona v. Gant,2009?

200

Replaced the pledge system in England; watchmen patrolled urban areas at night to provide protection from harm.

What is Watch System?
200

Police officers who specialize in dealing with juvenile offenders; they may operate alone or as part of a juvenile police unit in the department.

Who are Juvenile Officers?

200

Taking a person into the custody of the law to restrain the accused until he or she can be held accountable for the offense in court proceedings.

What is arrest?
200

One of the most important institutions playing a role in delinquency prevention

What are Schools?

200

the Supreme Court placed constitutional limitations on police interrogation procedures with adult offenders

What is the Miranda v. Arizona, 1966?

300

the first organized police force established in London in 1829

What is the "bobbies"?

300

Conflicts police officers face that revolve around the requirement to perform their primary duty of law enforcement and a desire to aid in rehabilitating youthful offenders

What is Role Conflicts?

300

Reasonable grounds to believe the existence of facts that an offense was committed and that the accused committed that offense.

What is Probable Cause?

300

was developed among a number of Arizona police departments in an effort to reduce adolescent involvement in criminal behavior 

What is The Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program?

300

stated that constitutional privileges against self-incrimination are applicable in juvenile cases too

What is The Supreme Court case of in re Gault? 

400

most famous police reformer of the 1930s

Who is August Vollmer?

400

A person who has access to criminal networks and shares information with authorities in exchange for money or special treatment under conditions of anonymity

What is an Informant?

400

Latin for “in place of the parent”

What is loco parentis?

400

concept based on the premise that the police can carry out their duties more effectively if they gain the trust and assistance of concerned citizens

What is Community Policing?

400

ruled that age does matter and that greater care must be taken by the police when questioning children in their custody

What is J.D.B. v. North Carolina?

500

an agency set up to fund justice-related programs and acted as a catalyst for developing hundreds of new police programs and enhancing police services for children.

What is Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA)? 

500

Law enforcement that focuses on addressing the problems underlying incidents of juvenile delinquency rather than the incidents alone.

What is Problem-Oriented Policing?

500

The U.S. Constitution protects citizens from this by police without a lawfully obtained search warrant; such warrants are issued when there is probable cause to believe that an offense has been committed.

What is Search and Seizure?

500

A focused deterrence strategy that involves applying all available measures or “levers” to police as well as communicating with offenders to reduce a targeted delinquent problem.

What is Pulling Levers Policing?

500

the court said that the question of a child’s waiver is to be determined by the totality of the circumstances doctrine

What is People v. Lara?