Juvenile Law

Question 1

Typical people that commit crime

Answer 1

Abuse, neglect, emotionally, or mentally troubled

Question 2

Older juveniles who are charged with serious crimes or offenders may be

Answer 2

Tried as adults

Question 3

Main goal of juvenile system

Answer 3

Rehabilitation

Question 4

Principal of juvenile courts

Answer 4

Best interest of young person

Question 5

3/4 juvenile cases begin as an _________, 1/4 case the results of _________

Answer 5

Arrest ; a petition from parents, school administrator, or other person in contact with a child

Question 6

Neglect cases

Answer 6

Juveniles abused by caregivers, juvenile court has power to place youth with other families in foster homes

Question 7

Once arrested juvenile can be

Answer 7

Sent home or kept in juvenile detention center until court

Question 8

delinquency cases

Answer 8

juvenile commits a crime considered illegal for juvenile, but not an adult

Question 9

Special officers for juvenile cases

Answer 9

Try to divert nonviolent youngsters away from court and into rehabilitation programs
Examples: counseling, job training, drug treatment

Question 10

Preliminary hearing

Answer 10

Determined if the accused can be charged

Question 11

Juveniles do not have the right to

Answer 11

A jury trial

Question 12

A juvenile trial consist of

Answer 12

The juvenile, parents, or caregiver, lawyer, judge, arresting officer, probation officer, who invested the case

Question 13

If juvenile is found to be delinquent the court holds another hearing to decide

Answer 13

The Sentence

Question 14

Juvenile punishments

Answer 14

Stern lecture from judge, special training school, reformatory school, treatment center, teen shelter

Question 15

If juvenile successfully completes probation, the charges will be

Answer 15

Dropped, and the matter removed from their record

Question 16

Precendent form In re Gault: Supreme Court case in 1966

Answer 16

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

Question 17

If rights are violated in a juvenile case, towards the defendant, the defendant is entitled to

Answer 17

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