SOC 3523 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Juvenile Court, Intellectual Disability
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A juvenile charged with an excluded offense is treated as an adult form the beginning of the. Part of the trend toward get tough legislation. Reverse waiver: a provision whereby a juvenile who is being prosecuted as an adult in criminal court may petition to have the case transferred to juvenile court from adjudication or disposition. Authorizes the adult criminal court to consider the appropriateness of a juvenile case for criminal prosecution. A fundamental legal premise in the justice system requires that a crime must include both an act and an intent to commit the act. The principle of fundamental fairness was demonstrated in a recent u. s. supreme court ruling in.
