Juvenile Justice Exam #2 Questions
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Community-oriented policing - ✔✔his is designed to prevent crime and build better
communities, solve the causes of crime, provide services to the community, and keep
the peace. This has lofty goals, but the key to community policing is that the police and
the community are working together to deal with criminality. They want to be proactive
and get juveniles to stop before they start. They do this by forming community
partnerships. The police will be involved with citizens and others to help deal with the
crime prevention problem. The idea is that if citizens are involved in the process, the
police and the communities can do better jobs in reducing recidivism and solving
crimes. They can use programs like neighborhood watch, working with schools to
provide programs to reduce delinquency, programs that teach about bullying, or
reducing juvenile delinquency and to help the victims of crime. This is working more
with public relations because its a good way to make the police good. These are
programs such as the citizens police academy, DARE, etc.
Problem-oriented policing - ✔✔This is designed to resolve a certain problem that
they're having. This is more designed to reduce recidivism and secondary crime
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,prevention. This is more like the scientific method approach to solving a crime problem.
They use the SARA approach.
S. Scan and gather information to figure out what the problem is.
A. Analysis which means that you analyze the situation. - You determine the problem,
the cause and come up with a solution.
R. Response - You implement the solution.
A. Assessment - Making sure the solution that is developed and implemented is
effective. This is effective because they make sure what they're doing is effective.
Confidentiality laws - ✔✔Statutes that protect the identity and records of juvenile
offenders in an attempt to avoid the stigmatization that comes with adjudication.
Sight and sound separated - ✔✔The concept that juveniles should not be able to see or
hear adults offenders when taken into police custody.
Juvenile justice + delinquency prevention act required sight and sound separation
between juveniles and adult offenders (this means that juvenile offenders cannot see or
hear adults, which might mean that they'll be in total isolation).
Custody - ✔✔Essentially the same as arrest for adults.
Curfew - ✔✔A municipal ordinance that restricts the hours a juvenile can be out in
public.
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,Truancy - ✔✔A status offense making it illegal for youths not to attend school. The
most common types of status offenses are usually running away from home, truancy,
and curfew violations.
Protective custody - ✔✔Taking a minor into police custody to protect him or her from
possible harm.
Intake officer - ✔✔The person at a mention facility responsible for processing a juvenile
into the facility. They often have the authority to refuse to take a juvenile into custody.
D.A.R.E. program - ✔✔A controversial school-based program designed to encourage
youths to avoid drugs. This program accounts for a lot of resources expended, but not
much in return in the way of deterrence. This was originally created to build a stronger
relationship between the police and the youth, which it did, and to encourage youth to
avoid drugs, which it hasn't. In 1994, the Bureau of Justice Statistics proved its
ineffectiveness.
G.R.E.A.T. program - ✔✔A police program in which officers go to schools to educate
youths on the dangers of gangs.
Procedural rights - ✔✔Rights that govern the process by which a hearing or court action
will proceed.
Substantive rights - ✔✔Rights that protect an individual against arbitrary and
unreasonable action.
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, Proof beyond a reasonable doubt - ✔✔The facts and evidence are entirely convincing
and satisfy that the person committed the act beyond any reasonable doubt, sometimes
equated with 95% certainty.
Preponderance of the evidence - ✔✔Evidence which is of greater weight or more
convincing than evidence that is offered in opposition to it. Sometimes referred to as
more than 50% percent, more than half of the level of certainty.
Totality of circumstances - ✔✔The test used to determine if a juvenile's waiver of rights
was knowing and voluntary.
Expunging or sealing - ✔✔Allows for the erasure or destruction of juvenile records once
a juvenile reaches the age of majority.
Preventive detention - ✔✔The holding of a juvenile without bond or bail prior to his or
her adjudication hearing.
Jurisdiction - ✔✔The court authority granted by law to hear a case.
Diversion - ✔✔A procedure by which the juvenile is removed from the juvenile justice
process and provided with treatment services.
Detention center - ✔✔A facility designed for short-term secure confinement of the
juvenile prior to court disposition or execution of a court order.
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Community-oriented policing - ✔✔his is designed to prevent crime and build better
communities, solve the causes of crime, provide services to the community, and keep
the peace. This has lofty goals, but the key to community policing is that the police and
the community are working together to deal with criminality. They want to be proactive
and get juveniles to stop before they start. They do this by forming community
partnerships. The police will be involved with citizens and others to help deal with the
crime prevention problem. The idea is that if citizens are involved in the process, the
police and the communities can do better jobs in reducing recidivism and solving
crimes. They can use programs like neighborhood watch, working with schools to
provide programs to reduce delinquency, programs that teach about bullying, or
reducing juvenile delinquency and to help the victims of crime. This is working more
with public relations because its a good way to make the police good. These are
programs such as the citizens police academy, DARE, etc.
Problem-oriented policing - ✔✔This is designed to resolve a certain problem that
they're having. This is more designed to reduce recidivism and secondary crime
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,prevention. This is more like the scientific method approach to solving a crime problem.
They use the SARA approach.
S. Scan and gather information to figure out what the problem is.
A. Analysis which means that you analyze the situation. - You determine the problem,
the cause and come up with a solution.
R. Response - You implement the solution.
A. Assessment - Making sure the solution that is developed and implemented is
effective. This is effective because they make sure what they're doing is effective.
Confidentiality laws - ✔✔Statutes that protect the identity and records of juvenile
offenders in an attempt to avoid the stigmatization that comes with adjudication.
Sight and sound separated - ✔✔The concept that juveniles should not be able to see or
hear adults offenders when taken into police custody.
Juvenile justice + delinquency prevention act required sight and sound separation
between juveniles and adult offenders (this means that juvenile offenders cannot see or
hear adults, which might mean that they'll be in total isolation).
Custody - ✔✔Essentially the same as arrest for adults.
Curfew - ✔✔A municipal ordinance that restricts the hours a juvenile can be out in
public.
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,Truancy - ✔✔A status offense making it illegal for youths not to attend school. The
most common types of status offenses are usually running away from home, truancy,
and curfew violations.
Protective custody - ✔✔Taking a minor into police custody to protect him or her from
possible harm.
Intake officer - ✔✔The person at a mention facility responsible for processing a juvenile
into the facility. They often have the authority to refuse to take a juvenile into custody.
D.A.R.E. program - ✔✔A controversial school-based program designed to encourage
youths to avoid drugs. This program accounts for a lot of resources expended, but not
much in return in the way of deterrence. This was originally created to build a stronger
relationship between the police and the youth, which it did, and to encourage youth to
avoid drugs, which it hasn't. In 1994, the Bureau of Justice Statistics proved its
ineffectiveness.
G.R.E.A.T. program - ✔✔A police program in which officers go to schools to educate
youths on the dangers of gangs.
Procedural rights - ✔✔Rights that govern the process by which a hearing or court action
will proceed.
Substantive rights - ✔✔Rights that protect an individual against arbitrary and
unreasonable action.
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, Proof beyond a reasonable doubt - ✔✔The facts and evidence are entirely convincing
and satisfy that the person committed the act beyond any reasonable doubt, sometimes
equated with 95% certainty.
Preponderance of the evidence - ✔✔Evidence which is of greater weight or more
convincing than evidence that is offered in opposition to it. Sometimes referred to as
more than 50% percent, more than half of the level of certainty.
Totality of circumstances - ✔✔The test used to determine if a juvenile's waiver of rights
was knowing and voluntary.
Expunging or sealing - ✔✔Allows for the erasure or destruction of juvenile records once
a juvenile reaches the age of majority.
Preventive detention - ✔✔The holding of a juvenile without bond or bail prior to his or
her adjudication hearing.
Jurisdiction - ✔✔The court authority granted by law to hear a case.
Diversion - ✔✔A procedure by which the juvenile is removed from the juvenile justice
process and provided with treatment services.
Detention center - ✔✔A facility designed for short-term secure confinement of the
juvenile prior to court disposition or execution of a court order.
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