CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Preventive Detention, Due Process, Homicide
20 Nov 2016
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Juvenile justice: juvenile crime rose significantly through 1994, but the violent crime since then has dropped to its lowest levels since 1985. We have a lower percentage of juveniles in our population. 15 % of arrests made in america are juvenile arrests. Age of 18= age adulthood for criminal proceedings. Crimes committed: arson (setting fires) and vandalism (defacing property, slicing tires, egging cars, disorderly conduct: contribute to the majority of juvenile crimes. They must be separated by sight and sound from adults. They cannot even be transferred with adults unless they are involved in the same crime. Only florida and nebraska leave it up to the judge to decide whether to transfer the juvenile to adult court. Juveniles who commit capital offenses cannot be put to death for the crime they committed while underage: intake screening at the juvenile court. Once screened the child might be diverted to other programs like anger management: trial.
