Juvenile Law Flashcards
Typical people that commit crime
Abuse, neglect, emotionally, or mentally troubled
Older juveniles who are charged with serious crimes or offenders may be
Tried as adults
Main goal of juvenile system
Rehabilitation
Principal of juvenile courts
Best interest of young person
3/4 juvenile cases begin as an _________, 1/4 case the results of _________
Arrest ; a petition from parents, school administrator, or other person in contact with a child
Neglect cases
Juveniles abused by caregivers, juvenile court has power to place youth with other families in foster homes
Once arrested juvenile can be
Sent home or kept in juvenile detention center until court
delinquency cases
juvenile commits a crime considered illegal for juvenile, but not an adult
Special officers for juvenile cases
Try to divert nonviolent youngsters away from court and into rehabilitation programs
Examples: counseling, job training, drug treatment
Preliminary hearing
Determined if the accused can be charged
Juveniles do not have the right to
A jury trial
A juvenile trial consist of
The juvenile, parents, or caregiver, lawyer, judge, arresting officer, probation officer, who invested the case
If juvenile is found to be delinquent the court holds another hearing to decide
The Sentence
Juvenile punishments
Stern lecture from judge, special training school, reformatory school, treatment center, teen shelter
If juvenile successfully completes probation, the charges will be
Dropped, and the matter removed from their record
Precendent form In re Gault: Supreme Court case in 1966
Gerald Gault, 15, taken into custody for obscene phone call he had been placed on probation. The police did not leave notice to the parents who were at work when the youth is arrested, violating the 14th amendment
If rights are violated in a juvenile case, towards the defendant, the defendant is entitled to
Parents or guardians notified of the arrest as soon as possible, juvenile, and parents or guardians must be notified in writing what they’ve done, juveniles, have a right to legal counsel, which is a wire, right to confront witness, protection from self-incrimination
