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Juveniles are sent through a separate court system, which originated in Cook County Illinois in 1899 when legislature passed the Juvenile Court Act. Based on the Parens Patriae, where the courts take over for the parents, the Juvenile Court Act was considered the vehicle of growth in its time...
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With the involvement of the state or states the courts could then justify the use of medical and psychological exams. With the addition of JCA juveniles were then determined to have the right to due process, which resulted from re Gault in 1967. With presidents like that of re Gault being put into place, there are also many alternatives to jail, and institutionalizing teenage offenders...
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Juvenile Crime Forty-one states currently have laws that make it easier to try a juvenile that has committed a violent crime and is over the age of 14 as an adult. In 1995, Texas lowered the age a juvenile could be tried as an adult from 15 to 14...	2 / 397
Juvenile Crime According to Violent Crime Index arrest rates, the peak year for juvenile violent crime arrests was 1994. The Violent Crime Index includes the offenses of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault...	2 / 336
Juvenile Crime: Crime Rates It is comforting to know that, according to recent crime statistics, crime rates are dropping among adults. However, for teens the crime rate is soaring...	2 / 431
Juvenile Crime ,Juvenile Justice Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice presents what we know and what we urgently need to find out about contributing factors, ranging from prenatal care, differences in temperament, and family influences to the role of peer relationships, the impact of the school policies toward delinquency, and the broader influences of the neighborhood and community...	4 / 969
Juvenile Crime problems which the United States is faced with is juvenile crime. The reason experts feel juvenile's commit crimes is because of risk factors when they were younger but experts still have not found the main reason why juvenile's commit crimes...	2 / 530
Juvenile Crime problems which the United States is faced with is juvenile crime. The reason experts feel juvenile's commit crimes is because of risk factors when they were younger but experts still have not found the main reason why juvenile's commit crimes...	2 / 530
Juvenile Crime One of the biggest problems which the United States is faced with is juvenile crime. The reason experts feel juvenile's commit crimes is because of risk factors when they were younger but experts still have not found the main reason why juvenile's commit crimes...	2 / 534