Juvenile Courts
A juvenile court (or young offender's court) is a tribunal having special authority to pass judgements for crimes that are committed by children or adolescents who have not attained the age of majority. In most modern legal systems, children or teens who commit a crime are treated differently from legal adults that have committed the same offense. Industrialized countries differ in whether juveniles should be tried as adults for serious crimes or considered separately. Since the 1970s, minors have been tried increasingly as adults in response to "increases in violent juvenile crime." Young offenders may still not be prosecuted as …
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TSP: Sentencing Project · 10 April 2024 English
Issue Brief #3 Protect and Redirect: Measuring Equity and Results in Juvenile Diversion Robust data collection and analysis are essential tools Careful attention to data is necessary to answer ques- …
capacity complete reporting” of data from juvenile courts around “to produce performance measure reports …
TSP: Sentencing Project · 19 March 2024 English
Protect and Redirect America’s Growing Movement to Divert Youth Out of the Justice System Protect and Redirect: America’s Growing Movement to Divert Youth Out of the Justice System 1 PROTECT …
Harris County (Houston), Texas – Harris Coun- juvenile courts in 2023, up from 31% in 2015. ty has undertaken … who might otherwise es, formal processing in juvenile courts is unnecessary enter the justice system.59 …
UN: The United Nations · 7 March 2024 English
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the law fall within the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts, and that child and adolescent offenders are …
UNODC: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime · 29 February 2024 English
Building on the process to implement ICCS and the report on crime and criminal justice statistics authored by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the National …
specialized jurisdictions, such as tax courts or juvenile courts. Administrative data from the prosecution service … example) or institutional terms (appeal courts or juvenile courts, for example). Combining data from the various … data from juvenile courts who is a specialist in data generated in and used by juvenile courts and responsible …
TSP: Sentencing Project · 22 February 2024 English
With respect to the treatment of criminal history presented in Part A, we believe the purpose of the sentencing guidelines and the juvenile justice system, inconsistent juvenile records and transfer …
mid-1920’s, most states had created separate juvenile courts for youth. From its inception, the juvenile … 20 16 Steven A. Drizin & Greg Luloff, Are Juvenile Courts a Breeding Ground for Wrongful Convictions … of whom will only have one encounter with juvenile courts.44 Giving points in adult sentencing for juvenile …
UN: The United Nations · 22 February 2024 English
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law.70 As of 2022, there are 40 family and juvenile courts at 38 provincial People's Courts and 02 High …
WZB: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung · 19 February 2024 German
Allmendinger, Jutta (1994): Lebensverlauf und Sozialpolitik. [...] Allmendinger, Jutta (2014): Abrakadabra und der kleine Rechentrick – Die halbierte Frau. [...] Allmendinger, Jutta (2013): Mehr Geld für Identitäten und Kulturen. [...] …
Opening Presentation at the 29th German Day of Juvenile Courts, Deutsche Vereinigung für Jugendgerichte und …
UN: The United Nations · 19 February 2024 English
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(Care and Adoption) Act No. 20 of 2013; • Juvenile Courts Act No. 5 of 1948; • Trafficking in Persons …
TSP: Sentencing Project · 9 February 2024 English
To be clear: current law already allows courts to extend probation if there is good cause to extend the probation and the purpose of the extension is to ensure the …
the majority of youth who are referred to juvenile courts will not return, especially those diverted … young children were referred to Maryland’s juvenile courts. Formal complaints were filed in 6,000 of these …
TSP: Sentencing Project · 9 February 2024 English
To be clear: current law already allows courts to extend probation if there is good cause to extend the probation and the purpose of the extension is to ensure the …
the majority of youth who are referred to juvenile courts will not return, especially those diverted … young children were referred to Maryland’s juvenile courts. Formal complaints were filed in 6,000 of these …
