CRJU 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Work Function, Reasonable Suspicion, Operation Ceasefire

• School: USC, SC, Carolina, South Carolina
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJU 351
• Professor: Jamie Duncan

Document Summary

Lots of calls to police is about abuse and neglect coming from schools. No specialized juvenile police force in all police departments (officers not as well versed to handle juveniles) Make up about 11% of total arrests: arrest breakdown!!!!!!!!!!!! Difficult for three reasons: police must deal with them often, more likely to hold negative attitudes, commit significant percentage of offenses. Very difficult to determine a 17-year-old from a 20-year-old. Juvenile court act (assumption or idea that we should treat juveniles differently) Units that have most contact with juveniles: special juvenile units, patrol officers (special unit that focuses on juveniles) Departments with spe(cid:272)ial ju(cid:448)e(cid:374)ile u(cid:374)its are t(cid:455)pi(cid:272)all(cid:455) larger poli(cid:272)e u(cid:374)its: lapd, mpd. Special juvenile units: work with juvenile court and justice workers. Deal with cases of abuse/neglect: e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ples: sro"s, gang units: specialized focus. Patrol officers: most often deal with status offenses, more likely to take juveniles into custody. Have better training on dealing with those in the population.