Chpt 4. The Police | Chapter 5 - The Juvenile Court | Chapter 6 - Trial and Disposition | Chapter 7 - Juveniles in Adult Court | Chapter 8 - Juvenile Probation |
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What can be defined as the choice between two or more possible means of handling a situation confronting the police officers?
Police Discretion
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This Act required that status offenders be kept from delinquents in secure detention and institutionalization
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
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What includes vital information about the defendant to help judges make decisions
The Predisposition Report
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What involves the actual decision-making process that begins when the juvenile is brought to intake
Judicial Waivers
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What requires offenders to repay their victims or the community for their crime
Restitution
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What consists of police placing a number of suspects in front of a witness or victim in efforts of identifying the individual who committed the crime against them?
LineUp
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Who argued that the juvenile court was unconstitutional because it denies fair trial and individual rights
Constitutionalists
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What is used when youths are found guilty of an offense and in need of supervision, but not secure confinement.
Probation
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This occurs when a juvenile over the max age of jurisdiction is sent back to juvenile court, if it is deemed more appropriate
Reverse Waiver
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What are the three Basic Functions of Juvenile Probation
Intake, Investigation, and Supervision
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What involves juvenile being taken into custody or arrested; he or she is then booked, talked to, and released without further action
Informal/Formal Processing
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What is the Amendment that protects citizens from unauthorized search and seizure
The 4th Amendment
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During this hearing, the judge must review more information, including inadmissible information about the juvenile to make a decision.
Disposition Hearing
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This occurs when juvenile offenders receive a juvenile and adult sentence concurrently.
Blended Sentencing
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The purpose of this model is to reconcile is to the interest of victims, offenders, and the community
Restorative Justice Model
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Parents of youth are called to the police station and, after booking, the youth is released into their care.
What is
Formal Processing at the Station
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My job is to set juvenile justice standards within the community and within the criminal and juvenile justice systems
The Judge
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After a disposition hearing, the judge reviews the social service report and decides to what disposition is most effective
Disposition Hearing
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Statutes which exclude certain offenses from juvenile court, thereby automatically transferring perpetrators of those offenses to adult court are known as
Statutorial Exclusion
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is a program of intermediate punishment where youths are ordered to remain confined in their own residences during evening hours after curfew and on weekends
House Arrest
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What is the ruling which found that fingerprinting taken by the police could not be used as evidence
Davis v. Mississippi
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What court case declared that juveniles are
entitled to proof “beyond a reasonable doubt.
In re Winship
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A closed less formal juvenile trial that ignores new standards and operate as in the pasts is what type of hearing
Adjudicatory
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What are set up by only a few states, but are special facilities developed to keep juveniles out of adult institutions.
Youthful Offender Systems
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What was designed to reduce prison overcrowding. This resulted in offenders being put on small caseloads and contacted frequently throughout the day and the week by probation officers.
Intensive Supervision Programs
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