Juvenile Court

Question 1

RIPAD

Answer 1

R: referral (petition, informal, dismiss)
I: informal (detain or release)
P: prosecute or informal or dismiss (or waive)
A: adjudicate or not
D: Disposition (community or commitment) or not

Question 2

CINA

Answer 2

Children in Need of Assistance
abused or neglected, or has a developmental disability or mental disorder, and no parents/guardian/custodian available to give proper care and attention to the child’s needs

Question 3

CINS

Answer 3

Children in Need of Supervision
needs guidance, treatment, or rehabilitation
Status offender

Question 4

Emergency Detention

Answer 4

for mental health assessment; danger to themselves or others

Question 5

Delinquency

Answer 5

conduct that does not conform to the legal or moral standards of society

Question 6

Restitution

Answer 6

Youth and/or their parents; up to $10,000 for each event. The DJS collects payments when the restitution order provides that restitution be made in installment payments as part of probation, or under a work plan.

Question 7

Pre-disposition plan or report

Answer 7

a presentence investigation that includes the social history of the juvenile prepared by a probation officer.

Question 8

Discretionary waiver

Answer 8

any youth age 15 and older for any alleged offense, or for youth not yet 15 but alleged to have committed a crime which, if committed by an adult, would be punishable by life imprisonment

Question 9

Statutory Exclusion

Answer 9

the crime and age of offender decide whether case is waived to adult court

youth age 14 and older and alleged to have committed an act which, if committed by an adult, would carry a sentence of life imprisonment, or for youth at least 16 years old and alleged to have committed an enumerated serious felony

Question 10

Reverse Waiver

Answer 10

waive back to JV Court from adult court due to the “interests of the child or society”

Question 11

16 and over – 1st-degree murder rule

Answer 11

automatic waive to adult court

Question 12

5 factors that judges must consider when waiving a child in Maryland

Answer 12

1. the age of the child
2. the mental and physical condition of the child
3. the amenability of the child to treatment in an institution, facility, or program available to delinquent children
4. the nature of the child’s acts as proven in the trial or admitted to in a plea entered under Maryland Rule 4-242
5. public safety

Question 13

Characteristics of those waived to adult court through statutory exclusion in Maryland

Answer 13

male, minorities, lower socioeconomic level