Juvenile Courts
A juvenile court (or young offender's court) is a tribunal having special authority to pass judgements for crimes that are committed by children or adolescents who have not attained the age of majority. In most modern legal systems, children or teens who commit a crime are treated differently from legal adults that have committed the same offense. Industrialized countries differ in whether juveniles should be tried as adults for serious crimes or considered separately. Since the 1970s, minors have been tried increasingly as adults in response to "increases in violent juvenile crime." Young offenders may still not be prosecuted as …
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St. Leonard's Society of Canada · 8 February 2023 English
The JDA adopted the ideology that when a young person would come in contact with the law, the state should act with the best interest of the child in mind …
justice legislation and their specialized juvenile courts.75 The difference between Croatia and Germany’s …
ICCLR: International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy · 12 March 2020 English
As part of the Criminal Justice Handbook Series, a series of practical tools developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to support countries in the implemen- …
justice process. In Thailand, lay judges for juvenile courts are sometimes trained as facilitators. 181 …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 2019 English
Starting in the 1930s, urban police forces from New York City to Montreal to Vancouver established youth squads and crime prevention programs, dramatically changing the nature of contact between cops …
system and instead processed them through juvenile courts with the ostensible aim not of punishing, … conceptualization of juvenile treatment under the law; juvenile courts, beginning in 1899 in the American Midwest … industrial and reform schools, which would produce juvenile courts at the turn of the century, reveals a shifting … “exposure that hardens” youth.54 Thirty years of juvenile courts had not quelled the upward swing of delinquency … directed at young people with the local police, juvenile courts, schools, and youth organizations. The councils’ …
Homeless Hub · 17 May 2017 English
Additionally, we’d like to acknowledge the advocates and activists, and the local and national government officials who have worked to center the needs of LGBTQ2S youth experiencing homelessness. [...] The …
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in juvenile courts. Legal Services for Children, National Juvenile …
Homeless Hub · 17 May 2017 English
Additionally, we’d like to acknowledge the advocates and activists, and the local and national government officials who have worked to center the needs of LGBTQ2S youth experiencing homelessness. [...] The …
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in juvenile courts. Legal Services for Children, National Juvenile …
ACWS: Alberta Council of Women's Shelters · 2 August 2016 English
That report respondents, 23% of both Native American and multiracial examines drivers of incarceration for LGBT people, the respondents, and 18% of API respondents.8 experiences of LGBT people in the …
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Juvenile Courts” (Legal Services for Children, National Juvenile …
ACWS: Alberta Council of Women's Shelters · 19 February 2016 English
The work that informed and made this report possible remains critically necessary, and continues to merit our attention, amplification, and resources in order to ensure that efforts to end the …
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Juvenile Courts. More recently, grassroots and national organizations … Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth in Juvenile Courts National Juvenile Defender Center, National … examines the experiences of LGBT youth in juvenile courts across the country. The report is based on … Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Juvenile Courts” (Legal Services for Children, National Juvenile … Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Juvenile Courts.” 142 Galen Baughman, “Questionable Commitments …
CIW: Canadian Index of Wellbeing and University of Waterloo · 13 January 2016 English
They identified the respondent’s main activity at the time of the beep, its precise timing (day and time of the beep), the location of the respondent, the company he/she was …
movie going on “relaxing of social taboos” and juvenile courts listed movies as one of the causes of juvenile …
CIAJ - ICAJ: Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice · 26 May 2014 English
Five variables were selected to test the effect of the program on substantive legal outcomes, and four additional variables were selected to measure the effect of the program on the …
A STUDY OF THE ROLE OF COUNSEL IN AMERICAN JUVENILE COURTS, Russell Sage Foundation (1972)(juvenile). …
CIAJ - ICAJ: Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice · 26 May 2014 English
Five variables were selected to test the effect of the program on substantive legal outcomes, and four additional variables were selected to measure the effect of the program on the …
A STUDY OF THE ROLE OF COUNSEL IN AMERICAN JUVENILE COURTS, Russell Sage Foundation (1972)(juvenile). …
