Exam 1: Juvenile Justice: An Overview

Match each term with its description. -Adjudicatory hearing

Match each term with its description. -Balanced and Restorative Justice Model

In the balanced and restorative justice model, competency refers to the rehabilitation of offenders.

The premise of parens patriae at the Cook County Juvenile Court was that it allowed the juvenile courts to ________.

In Europe during the middle ages, who assumed control over children and their welfare before it was turned over to the Chancery Court?

The justice model requires that punishment offenders receive must be ________ to the seriousness of the offense.

Describe the differences in the appropriate application of the get tough and go soft approaches to sentencing.

The parens patriae philosophy permitted the Cook County Juvenile Court to take charge of juveniles (children) in need.

Match each term with its description. -Minor

Which of the following correctional models emphasizes punishment as the remedy for juvenile misbehavior?

Which of the following is most concerned that juvenile offenders receive therapy rather than institutionalization?

Suppose there were an opening for a judge in your town. The city council asks you to serve on the committee who will interview the candidates and then recommend a judge that would be a good fit for your community. They tell you they want someone who believes in rehabilitating offenders and not too quick to incarcerate. These are your four candidates: John Smith, an advocate of the treatment model Harold Reed, and advocate of the justice model Jim Jones, an advocate for the crime control model Thomas Wu, an advocate for the balanced and restorative justice model Which of these candidates would likely be the best fit for what the city council is looking for? Why?

In colonial times, youths were punished by ________.

Studies on hidden delinquency and middle-class law breaking has taught that nearly all juveniles ________.

Which of the following is a responsibility of an agency other than corrections?

________ schools are also called reformatories or industrial schools.

An adjudicatory hearing is a trial that can result in a conviction.

You are a juvenile probation officer with a 16 year-old female client whose initial crime was a joy-ride vehicle theft. While on probation your client commits an aggravated assault. The judge asks you to work with the prosecutor to come up with an appropriate disposition to recommend for the offender. You are a supporter of the least-restrictive approach and the prosecutor is an advocate of the get-tough approach. The prosecutor adamantly pushes for incarceration. Would you be likely to agree with her recommendation? Why or why not?

A disposition hearing is basically a sentencing.

The liberal agenda of the 1960s and 1970s emphasized the ________.