1. Bifurcated divided into two branches; forked
2. Child Savers Nineteenth-century reformers who developed programs for
troubled youth and influenced legislation creating the juvenile justice
system; today some critics view them as being more concerned with
control of the poor than with their welfare.
3. Crime An orientation to criminal justice in which the protection of the communi
Control and the apprehension of ottenders are paramount
Model of
Crimi- nal
Justice refers to the tendency toward a never-ending cycle of juvenile justice
reform common in western society
4. Cycle of
Juvenile
Justice
5. decontextualized not relying on the immediate context, or setting, to convey content
6. Demographics the characteristics of a population with respect to age, race, and gender
7. denied Refers to the notion that youth, because of their legal dependency in
adult- hood Western society, are prevented from attaining the things that many
adults take for granted, such as the right to make decisions about
their own lives and the right to express their views
8. Limited
account-
ability justice
model
9. Moral Panic The reaction by a group of people based on exaggerated or false
perceptions
about crime and criminal behavior
10. official crime ottender and ottence data based on information collected for
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administrative pur- poses by justice agencies, such as the police,
courts, and correctional institutions
11. parens patriae power of the state to act on behalf of the child and provide care and
protection
equivalent to that of a parent
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12. Penal Populism Corrections policies that are formulated in pursuit of political
objectives, often in the absence of an informed public or in spite of
public opinion
13. politics of The mechanisms and methods whereby youth activities are socially
youth crime constructed as criminal; the meanings and imagery attached to these
definitions and the types of responses they generate
14. Problematize a process whereby something, someone, or some group is defined as a
problem
15. reformatory correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of
young or first ottenders
16. Reintegration A goal of corrections that focuses on preparing the ottender for a return
the
community unmarred by further criminal behavior.
17. Status offences actions prohibited only to minors.
acts that are considered illegal if committed by a person who has not
attained adult status
18. Principles of avoid aggravation, timing, compliance, individualism, specific
Re- sequencing, inten- sity, total patient
habilitation
a model of juvenile justice based on a rehabilitative philosophy
19. welfare based
ju- venile
justice sys-
tem
20. youth crime Crime committed by 10-17 year olds
21. youth justice sys- tem
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