Juvenile Law Exam 6 Flashcards
Juvenile behavior can be guided by _______ rather than _________
Impulse rather than rational thinking
Juvenile brain is developing well into the ____________.
Early mid 20’s
Any person under 18 years old
Juvenile
Applies to acts that if performed by an adult would be termed criminal
Delinquency
What is the age range for a delinquent child?
Ages 12-18 years old
What age is presumed incapable of committing a crime?
Under 12
Is ages 14-18 who has committed a crime involving the infliction or threat to inflict serious bodily harm
Youthful offender
A person, who in his/her professional capacity had reasonable cause to believe a child is experiencing physical or emotional injury from abuse or neglect.
Mandated reporter
Has a duty to report abuse/neglect to DCF immediately and file a written 51A report within __ hours.
48 hours
Who is considered a mandated reporter?
- Police Officer
- Nurse
- Teacher
- Doctor
- EMT
- Firefighter
What’s the age to file for a Child Requiring Assistance (CRA)?
Ages 6-18 years old
What are the categories under Child Requiring Assistance?
- Runaway/Stubborn Child
- Habitual School Offender/Habitually Truant
- Sexually Exploited
A caretaker failure, either deliberately, or through negligence, to maintain the child’s health and well being, or one who creates a substantial risk of serious bodily injury, or sexual abuse
Neglect
Parent/Relative definition
Except???
The child’s father, mother, stepparents, brother, sister, step siblings, any blood relatives including half-blood
Except: Cousins
Minimum age of CRA?
6 years old
What’s the age of consent for touching?
14 years old
When a child is suspected of abuse or neglect what should we file?
51A
Any person under 18 years old who had been subjected to sexual exploitation because such person:
1. Is a victim of the crime of sexual servitude or sex trafficking
2. Engaged, agrees to engage or offers to engage in sexual conduct with another person in exchange for a fee, food, shelter, clothing, education or care
3. Victim of the crime, whether prosecuted or inducing a minor into prostitution
Sexually Exploited Child
A needy child who is deprived of parental support or care by reason of death, continued absence from the home, physical or mental incapacity or the unemployment of a parent, and who is living with his father, mother or other parent in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as his or their own home and who is
either:
1. Under 18 years old
2. 18 years old AND a full time student
Dependent child
Parents must give consent for child to drop out of school at age_
16
Only detectives can file for a CRA
T/F?
False
Anyone can file for a CRA
At the age of 15, the child can receive a seatbelt violation
T/F?
False
At the age of 16 the child can receive a seatbelt violation
A school-aged child not excused from attendance under the lawful and reasonable regulations of such school, who willfully fails to attend school for more than 8 days in a quarter
Habitually Truant
Repeatedly fails to obey lawful and reasonable regulations of the child’s school
Habitual School Offender
Custody - Authority to determine:
Child’s place of residence, medical care and education
Control visits to a child
Consent to enlistment, marriages, and other contracts requiring parental consent.
