Exam 13: The Juvenile Justice System

The child savers believed that juvenile offenders required treatment,not punishment.

Similar to the sentencing hearing for adults,a(n)____ hearing is when the juvenile judge decides the appropriate punishment for a youth found to be delinquent or a status offender.

Describe the one variable that always correlates highly with juvenile crime rates.

Boot camps are a good example of residential treatment programs.

A youth gang is viewed as a group of ____ or more persons who self-identify themselves as an entity separate from the community by special clothing,vocabulary,hand signals,and name,and engage in criminal activity.

A(n)____ is a procedure in which juvenile court judges have the discretion to transfer a juvenile case to adult court when certain predetermined conditions regarding the seriousness of the offense and the age of the offender are met.

Drug use has been shown to be a strong risk factor for which category of juveniles?

The infliction of physical or emotional damage on a child without any plausible explanation,such as an accident,is referred to as:

Which landmark case resulted in a ruling that youths can be detained if they are deemed a "risk" to the safety of the community or to their own welfare?

A juvenile who has been found to have engaged in behavior deemed unacceptable for those under a certain statutorily determined age is referred to as a ____.

Differences between the adult justice system and the juvenile justice system include:

The judge in the case decides to send Jacob to a secure facility because of the severity of the charges.After 8 months Jacob is released early because of good behavior but as part of his sentence he will serve the remainder of his sentence in a wilderness camp where he will receive additional treatment.Which residential treatment program would this wilderness camp be part of?

In ____,the juvenile lives with a couple who act as surrogate parents.

The efforts of the child savers culminated with the passage of the New York Juvenile Court Act in 1899.

Skipping school is considered status offense.

Training schools have many of the same problems as adult prisons and jails,including drug abuse and overcrowding.

Discuss the four major differences between juvenile courts and adult courts.

The ____ is a document filed with a juvenile court alleging that the juvenile is a delinquent or a status offender and asking the court to either hear the case or transfer it to an adult court.

Current research shows that the majority of gang members today are white.

The efforts of the child savers culminated with the passage of the Illinois Juvenile Court Act in _______.