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A report that provides the judge with relevant background material to aid in the Disposition decision is called:

A) adjudication
B) probation
C) predisposition report
D) graduated sanctions

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Explain why juveniles are often thought to have lowered responsibility for their actions in a legal sense?

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-Juveniles are generally more impulsive
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Most states do not provide a bifurcated process in which a separate disposition hearing follows the adjudicatory hearing.

Under the philosophy of parens patriae, who is responsible to step in when the child's wellbeing is not being looked after?

A judicial waiver is the process in which the juvenile judge decides that the alleged juvenile offender should be transferred to adult court.

Between 1980 and 2008, the violent crime that the majority of juvenile offenders are arrested for in the United States was:

Explain the relationship between age and crime?

Which of the following is not a component of the definition of a youth gang?

The first juvenile court was created in the state of __________.

In what court case did the U.S. Supreme Court hold that the government had to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that a juvenile had committed an act of delinquency?

The process of removing low-risk offenders from the formal juvenile justice system by placing them in community-based rehabilitation programs is called:

Which of the following rights does a juvenile have according to the U.S. Supreme Court?

The child-savers movement led to the Illinois Juvenile Court Act.

Explain the development of the concept of parens patriae.

The theory that a delinquent or status offender should receive a punishment that matches the severity of the wrongdoing is called deterrence.

The first U.S. Supreme Court case to extend due process rights to children was the __________ vs. United States.

Many experts believe that the downward trend in juvenile homicide arrests can be traced largely to a decline in firearm use.

The child-savers believed which of the following?

When a child is denied certain necessities such as shelter, food, care, and love this is called __________.

Explain the difference between an adjudicatory hearing and a disposition hearing.