9: Juvenile Justice
Learning Objectives
In this section, you will be introduced to juvenile justice. This section is designed to be a broad overview of the juvenile court system to examine the pros and cons of the juvenile justice system, examine the various stages in the juvenile justice system, and discuss contemporary issues in juvenile justice. After reading this section, students will be able to
- Summarize the history and purpose of the juvenile court
- Explain the pros and cons of the juvenile justice system
- Briefly examine the stages of the juvenile justice system
- Examine the reasons supporting and criticizing the process of waiver to adult court
- Explain how due process has evolved through the juvenile court
Background Knowledge Probe
Each chapter will begin by assessing your current knowledge about different criminal justice topics. Each of these topics will be covered by the chapter, meaning that you should be able to answer them correctly after you have completed the reading. All definitions can be seen by clicking on the bolded vocabulary terms in each chapter.
Please indicate whether you know each statement to be True or False. This is an ungraded exercise, but you may want to record which questions you answer incorrectly, so that you can verify that your knowledge has improved by the end of the chapter.
