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Detention can be used only for violent crimes and is not permissible for status offenses.

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Truancy is not considered a status offense because school violations fall under a different law code.

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CASE 15.3 A 16-year-old female is arrested for the third time in a two-year period for possession of drugs, curfew violations, and obstruction of justice for lying to police. Given this information, answer the following questions. -At her juvenile sentencing or _________________, the female was given one year in juvenile detention with mandatory drug counseling and anger management.

The Quakers were influential in rehabilitation methods for children as early as the 1800s.

The Juvenile Court Act of 1899 set up an independent court to handle criminal law violations by children under 16 years of age as well as created:

The Latin term, meaning "father of his country," that refers to the power of the state to act on behalf of those children who cannot is called ______________________.

Civil leaders known as the ___________________ focused on the misdeeds of poor children to control their behavior in the 1800s.

Which of the following involves treating offenders who would normally have been sent to a secure treatment facility as part of a very small probation caseload that receives almost daily scrutiny

Which landmark U.S. Supreme Court case held that juveniles have the same right to due process at trial as adults

CASE 15.3 A 16-year-old female is arrested for the third time in a two-year period for possession of drugs, curfew violations, and obstruction of justice for lying to police. Given this information, answer the following questions. -The commonly used formal sanction for juveniles is probation; however, in this case an alternative correctional practice was implemented that uses daily supervision by an assigned probation officer and may include other restrictions and penalties that may be more useful. This practice is called:

Poor laws were sixteenth-century English laws under which vagrants and abandoned children were bound to masters as indentured servants.

In 1974, Congress passed the ______________________, which provides funds to states to bolster their services for maltreated children and their parents.

Most juveniles found "delinquent" in the early juvenile courts were sent to adult prison.

Under which of the following type of waiver does the prosecutor have the discretion of filing separate charges for certain legislatively designated offenses in either juvenile or criminal court

The first recognized juvenile court was established in Illinois in 1899.

Since passage in 1974, all 50 states now participate in some aspect with the deinstitutionalization mandate.

The Federal courts have not found it necessary to rule on the issue of _______________ for juveniles because liberal statutory release provisions act as alternatives.

Although heralded as a great liberal reform, modern scholars have come to view the creation of early juvenile courts as merely a continuation of the struggle between the rich and the poor.

In early juvenile courts, youth were encouraged to admit their guilt in open court, which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The U.S. Supreme court has repeatedly upheld the drug testing of student athletes.