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  2. Juvenile court - Wikipedia

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    Juvenile court sentences may range from: informal supervision, through which a court informally monitors a minor and dismisses a pending charge if the minor stays out of trouble; formal supervision, similar to adult probation, under which a juvenile meets with and is supervised by a juvenile probation officer

  3. American juvenile justice system - Wikipedia

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    Harris County Juvenile Justice Center. The American juvenile justice system is the primary system used to handle minors who are convicted of criminal offenses. The system is composed of a federal and many separate state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, with states and the federal government sharing sovereign police power under the common authority of the United States Constitution.

  4. Teen court - Wikipedia

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    Teen or youth courts provide an alternative court system through which juvenile offenders can be heard and judged by their peers.Most teen courts have strict guidelines for youth volunteers who participate in the sentencing process, which generally includes training, a modified bar exam, peer mentoring and compliance with a code of conduct.

  5. Blended sentencing will benefit serious youthful offenders ...

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    Blended sentencing will improve our juvenile justice system. It will result in more accountability and help salvage the lives of many youthful offenders before they continue down the path of ...

  6. Youth detention center - Wikipedia

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    Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, or more colloquially as juvie/juvy or the Juvey Joint, also sometimes referred to as observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they ...

  7. Juvenile law - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the juvenile varies in definition from state to state. The system applies to anyone between the ages of 6 and 10, depending on the state, and 18; [ 1 ] except for 11 states (including Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas), where a juvenile is a person under 17 and New ...

  8. Tennessee’s blended sentencing law will lock up more kids ...

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    Blended sentencing is part of a broader effort by some lawmakersto make Tennessee’s juvenile justice system more punitive, even though rates of youth crime in the state have been declining for ...

  9. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Juvenile convicts working in the fields in a chain gang, photo taken circa 1903. The system that is currently operational in the United States was created under the 1974 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act called for a "deinstitutionalization" of juvenile delinquents. The act ...