Exam 11: The History and Development of Juvenile Justice

A _______________________ is held to determine whether a juvenile is to be detained or released while proceedings are pending in the case.

From the court's creation in 1899 until the late 1960s, _____________________ was the burden of proof in a juvenile court case.

The criminal trial is called a adjudicatory hearing in the juvenile justice system.

The philosophy behind the _________________________ approach is to limit the most restrictive sanctions to the most dangerous offenders, while increasing restrictions and intensity of treatment services as offenders move from minor to serious offenses.

Head Start and Smart Start are examples of intervention programs that focus on teenage youths.

The most prominent of the care facilities developed by the child savers was the _____________________________, which opened in 1825.

______________________ were used to transfer urban youths to Western farm communities between 1854 and 1930.

The standard of evidence in juvenile delinquency adjudications, as in adult criminal trials, is proof _____________________________.

The concept of _____________________ refers to the power of the state to act in behalf of the child and provide care and protection equivalent to that of a parent.

Like adults, juveniles are protect against reasonable search and seizure under the ________________ and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.

The leaders of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (SPCC) were more concerned with sex related status offenses of female youths than they were of male youths.

The procedure of separating adjudicatory and dispositionary hearings so different levels of evidence can be heard at each is called a ________________________.

List and discuss the similarities and differences between the juvenile and adult justice systems as presented in the text.

Like adults, juveniles are indicted for a crime.

Which of the following is not noted as a benefit of using the comprehensive strategy in the text?

Identify and discuss the pressing issues in the future of juvenile justice presented in the text.

The largest piece of crime legislation in the history of the United States, the 1994 _____________________________ provided for a hundred thousand new police officers and billions of dollars for prisons and prevention programs for both adult and juvenile offenders.

According to the latest statistics, about half of all children arrested are referred to the juvenile court.

Secure pretrial holding facilities are called ____________________ rather than jails in the juvenile justice system.

By 1930 about ______________ youths were placed out in rural homesteads by the Children's Aid Society.