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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: State of New York
		The State institutions for the care of the insane and juvenile delinquents are numerous, and the almshouses, hospitals, and other charitable agencies under the care of the counties and other municipalities abound throughout the State.
		It enacted that the law of the State should be constituted of the Common Law of England and of the Acts of the Legislature of the Colony of New York, as together forming the law of the colony on 19 April, 1775 (the day of the battle of Concord and Lexington).
		In the absence of a specific statute the question was presented whether such an act was in New York a crime at common law.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11029a.htm

	TeenAdvocatesUSA
		Juvenile Justice is the area of criminal law applicable to persons not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts.
		Juvenile law is mainly governed by state law and most states have enacted a juvenile code.
		State statutes creating juvenile courts and providing methods for dealing with juvenile delinquency have generally been upheld by courts as an acceptable extension of state power to ensure the safety and welfare of children.
	www.teenadvocatesusa.homestead.com /juvenilejustice~ns4.html

	Riverside Attorneys Juvenile Defense Lawyers California CA
		The juvenile law lawyers at Blumenthal Law Offices understand the California juvenile justice code and ensure that the rights of our juvenile clients are fully protected in court.
		The juvenile crime is called an act of delinquency and requires juvenile court intervention to correct the delinquency.
		Notwithstanding these differences, juveniles are entitled to receive full notice of all charges against them, the right to a fair hearing, and the right to confront witnesses.
	www.blumenthallawoffices.com /PracticeAreas/Juvenile.asp (458 words)

	Juvenile Justice Bulletin -- October 2000 -- Offenders in Juvenile Court, 1997
		Law enforcement agencies, the most likely referral source, referred 47% of the petitioned status offense cases processed in juvenile courts in 1997, compared with 85% of delinquency cases.
		Juvenile courts detained youth in 11% of runaway cases, 7% of status liquor law violation cases, 7% of ungovernability cases, and 2% of truancy cases.
		Law enforcement agencies were more likely to be the referral source for status liquor law violation cases (94%) than for other status offense cases, including running away (40%), truancy (8%), and ungovernability (11%).
	www.ncjrs.org /html/ojjdp/jjbul2000_10_3/page6.html (458 words)

	hip online: artists: juvenile
		Rapper Juvenile (real name: Terius Gray) was arrested yesterday (Jan. 29) in New Orleans on drug charges with three other people when police smelled, then saw, two burning marijuana cigarettes in their car.
		In March 2001, the rapper was arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a bottle, battery on a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest without violence.
		Juvenile's most recent Cash Money/Universal album, "Project English," debuted in September 2001 at No. 2 on The Billboard 200.
	www.hiponline.com /artist/music/j/juvenile/013103.html (283 words)

	Utah State Courts - Juvenile Court Judges Biographies
		She has served on the Court Improvement Committee, the Law Related Education Board, the Standing Committee on Judicial Education, the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, and the Board of Juvenile Court Judges.
		JUDGE ELIZABETH A. Judge Elizabeth A. Lindsley was appointed to the Third District Juvenile Court in September, 2002 by Governor Michael O. Leavitt.
		JUDGE ANDREW A. Judge Andrew A. Valdez was appointed to the Third District Juvenile Court in June of 1993 by Gov. Michael O. Leavitt.
	www.utcourts.gov /judgesbios/juvygal3.htm (1502 words)

	Bora Laskin Law Library -Finding Legal Information on the Web -Criminology
		"The Redwood Highway" section provides links to sites dealing with criminology, including sites covering law enforcement, law and the courts, corrections, and special issues such as terrorism and organized crime, juvenile justice, the death penalty, etc. Additional links are available for listservs and discussion groups,job and internship, and government sites.
		Includes resources on corrections, courts, crime prevention, criminal justice statistics, drugs and crime, international juvenile justice, law enforcement, research and evaluation, victims, etc.
		Covers such topics as public and private policing, violence, deviance and social control, young offenders, criminology and criminal law.
	www.law-lib.utoronto.ca /resources/topic/crimolgy.htm (1502 words)

	www.pennyslaw.com The Official Penny Lea Brown Web Site
		Proponents of "Penny's Law" decided that some progress with the juvenile sentencing law for murder would be better than none, and so in April of 2003- with the help of some of the cautiously supportive Democratic members of the Assembly, a compromised version of "Penny's Law" was successfully passed through both houses.
		Although "Penny's Law" supporters are pleased, many are not content, and a further increase in juvenile murder sentencing will likely be pursued.
		After a four year fight for justice, considerable progress was made on Tuesday, July, 22, as Governor George Pataki made "Penny's Law" a reality in New York State by signing a compromised version of the bill into law.
	www.pennyslaw.com (1502 words)

	Is Relying On Foreign Law An Impeachable Offense? -- Phyllis Schlafly March 16, 2005 column.
		A good place to start would be a law declaring it an impeachable offense for justices to rely on foreign law in overriding the U.S. Constitution or congressional or state law.
		After an exhaustive trial and full consideration of age as a factor, the jury and judge imposed the death sentence as allowed by Missouri law.
		Wade because that might undermine "the Court's legitimacy." But in the Simmons case, the Court flatly overturned its own decision about juvenile capital punishment in Stanford v.
	www.eagleforum.org /column/2005/mar05/05-03-16.html (1502 words)

	Woman killed at party - Law Enforcement
		Kentucky law requires that authorities not release the names of juveniles charged with crimes.
		Woman killed at party Juvenile arrested, another also wounded at armory shooting http://www.kentuckynewera.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200309/29+Woman-killed- 09-29-03_news.html+20030929+news ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- By JENNIFER P. BROWN jpbrown@kentuckynewera.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- A Hopkinsville woman was shot and killed during a party at the National Guard Armory, and a male juvenile has been charged with her murder.
		Woman killed at party - Law Enforcement - D E M I G O D
	www.lawenforcementtalk.com /Woman_killed_at_party-2117477-265-a.html (1502 words)

	BCCLA Position Paper: Legislative proposals to replace the Juvenile Delinquents Act, 1980
		Over the past several years a number of publications and reports have been issued by the federal government addressing the problem of juvenile delinquency in Canada, particularly the inadequacy of the present law for dealing with this problem.
		It would not be possible to transfer jurisdiction of the case to provincial law and authorities, as is now the practice in some cases under Section 21 of the Juvenile Delinquents Act.
		While the Juvenile Delinquents Act is silent on the authority to take the fingerprints and photographs of juveniles, this issue has been the subject of conflicting judicial determination in recent months.
	www.bccla.org /positions/children/80yoa.html (1502 words)

	Childrens Law Center
		Walker-Sterling was a Prettyman Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center's Juvenile and Criminal Justice Clinics, and a law clerk to the Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States District Court of the District of Columbia.
		She graduated from Yale Law School in 1990 and returned to the District of Columbia as a Juvenile Justice Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center.
		During law school she represented indigent defendants as a student attorney in the Criminal Justice Clinic, served as a law clerk at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and at CLC, and taught constitutional law and criminal procedure to high school students in DC public high schools.
	www.childrenslawcenter.org /content/view/3/26 (4420 words)

	(1976) Comments on Young persons in conflict with the law: A report on the Solicitor-General's Committee on Proposals for New Legislation to Replace the Juvenile Delinquents Act
		Juvenile justice, Administration of; Children; Juvenile courts; Legal status, laws, etc.; Canada
		Comments on Young persons in conflict with the law: A report on the Solicitor-General's Committee on Proposals for New Legislation to Replace the Juvenile Delinquents Act
		(1976) Comments on Young persons in conflict with the law: A report on the Solicitor-General's Committee on Proposals for New Legislation to Replace the Juvenile Delinquents Act
	www.getcited.org /pub/101827684 (4420 words)

	Virginia Juvenile Court ~ Law Offices of Diane Fener ~ Virginia Juvenile Law Attorney Lawyer Hampton Roads
		Another provision relating to expungement concerns cases where the juvenile is found not guilty or the proceeding is otherwise dismissed.
		In Virginia Beach, the juvenile intake office is located on the basement level of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
		In most cases, the records are automatically destroyed once the juvenile has turned 19 and 5 years have passed since the last hearing in his or her case.
	www.dianefener.com /juvenile-court.htm (4420 words)

	Law Library: Codes, Opinions, VA/MD Courts,Criminal Law
		Criminal Law, Adult Arrests, Juvenile Arrests, Bail, Search Warrants
		* VA Court of Appeals and Virginia Supreme Court
		* VA Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Opinions
	www.ragerlaw.com /lawlibrarypage.htm (4420 words)

	Online NewsHour: Law Background Reports
		In anticipation of the execution of Napoleon Beazley in Texas, Ray Suarez discusses juvenile capital punishment with NYU law professor Bryan Stephenson of the Equal Justice Initiative; district attorney Robert Horan of Fairfax County, Virginia; Nancy Gannon of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice; and Michael Rushford of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.
		A discussion with Jordan Setter, professor of constitutional and criminal justice law at the University of Texas, Margin Reynolds, director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis, Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, and Paul Cassell, a professor of law at the University of Utah.
		Margaret Warner discusses the rulings with four constitutional law professors: Doug Kmiec of Catholic University Law School; Kathleen Sullivan of Stanford University Law School; John Woo of Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley; and Kimberle Crenshaw of Columbia University and UCLA law schools.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/law.html (16197 words)

	Child Welfare League of America: Programs: Juvenile Justice Division: Publications
		Juvenile offenders may be affected by the Atkins ruling in the future, if the Court decides to overrule Stanford and finds that juveniles, analogous to the mentally retarded, are a population that require special legal protection due to contemporary standards of decency.
		The most promising legal argument for states to use in prohibiting the juvenile death penalty is that such a sentence violates the state's constitutional provisions and international law.
		Juvenile capital offenders are subject to a variety of sentencing options, contingent on state statutory provisions, the regional and national political climate, and the caliber of the offender's attorney.
	www.cwla.org /programs/juvenilejustice/juveniledeathpenalty.htm (5071 words)

	Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections - Glossary of Terms
		Juvenile Ombuds are utilized as a legal resource for both staff and juveniles; therefore, they must be knowledgeable and well versed in current Department policies and procedures, case law and recent changes to the Arizona Revised Statutes.
		Granted to a juvenile in a secure care facility after a determination by the Department that the juvenile is not likely to be a threat to the public safety if released and that the juvenile's continued treatment, rehabilitation and education in a less restrictive setting is consistent with the public's safety and interest.
		A juvenile committed to the Department (by an Arizona County court), previously in a Parole or Pending Suspension status, that is awaiting a parole revocation hearing.
	www.juvenile.state.az.us /AgencyInfo/Glossary.htm (6349 words)

	Juvenile Justice System
		Juvenile justice is criminal law applicable to persons not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts, usually, the age for criminal culpability is 18.
		The Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act defines juvenile delinquency as any act that is otherwise a crime, committed by someone under 18, and sets rules state laws must comply with in juvenile court procedures and punishments.
		The ratio of male juvenile arrests to female juvenile arrests declined from 8 to 1 in 1989 to 6 to 1 in 1993.
	www.karisable.com /crpunyouth.htm (2164 words)

	Juvenile
		The juvenile and/or the parents are entitled to the assistance of legal counsel at every stage of a Juvenile Court proceeding.
		Delinquency- A child is delinquent if: 1) the child commits an act which would be a crime if the child were 18-years old (legally an adult); and, 2) the child requires guidance, treatment or rehabilitation.
		Because state law dictates that a juvenile who commits a delinquent act is treated differently than an adult, juvenile cases are heard in the Juvenile Court system, which is separated from the state's other courts.
	www.mikethelawyer.com /juvenile.htm (928 words)

	Marion County Juvenile Department
		The Juvenile Department is an agency that provides services to youth that have been arrested for law violations and are in need of some structured supervision and accountability for their actions.
		Marion County Juvenile Department is located at 3030 Center Street NE in Salem, Oregon, and in the rural communities.
		Accountability of youth offenders is the premise on which the juvenile department operates its programs.
	juvenile.co.marion.or.us (209 words)

	Superior Court of California - County of Orange
		Juvenile citations for traffic and/or minor offenses, including violations of municipal code ordinances, are issued by law enforcement agencies throughout Orange County.
		Juvenile court records may not be obtained or inspected by civil or criminal subpoena.
		Unlike delinquency or status offender proceedings (where the principal focus is on the conduct of the minor), dependency proceedings are initially directed towards demonstrating that the parent has harmed or is unable to properly care for his or her child.
	www.occourts.org /juvenile (837 words)

	Hamilton County Juvenile Court
		The Juvenile Court of Hamilton County is the official assembly for transaction of judicial business and the administration of justice as mandated by local, state and federal law with respect to the constitution of the United States on juvenile matters.
		Children are referred to the Juvenile Court for reasons of delinquent, status offenses, and dependency and neglect issues.
		Habilitation and rehabilitation of youth and preservation of the family unit remain the philosophical goal of the Hamilton County Juvenile Court.
	www.hamiltontn.gov /Courts/Juvenile (204 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Law: Legal Information: Juvenile Law
		Association of Juvenile Compact Administrators - ACJA is the governing body of the Interstate Compact on Juveniles, which provides statutory authority for regulating the transfer of juvenile probation and parole supervision across state boundaries, provides for the return of non-adjudicated runaway youth to their home states, and for the return of non-adjudicated allegedly delinquent youth.
		The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice - A non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration.
		Juvenile Justice Trainer's Association - An organization devoted to developing and advancing a specialized system of education and training for juvenile justice professionals.
	dmoz.org /Society/Law/Legal_Information/Juvenile_Law (834 words)

	AllRefer.com - juvenile delinquency (Crime And Law Enforcement) - Encyclopedia
		juvenile delinquency, legal term for behavior of children and adolescents that in adults would be judged criminal under law.
		Juvenile correctional institutions have been separated from regular prisons since the early 19th cent., and although most are inadequate, some have developed intensive rehabilitation programs, providing vocational training and psychiatric treatment.
		Not until the development, after 1899, of the juvenile court was judgment of youthful offenders effectively separated from that of adults.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/juvenil-d.html (494 words)

	Minor (law) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In law, a person who is not yet a legal adult is known as a minor (known in some places as an infant or juvenile).
		Examples of such protections include statutory rape laws, prohibitions against the use of alcohol/cigarettes, school attendance requirements, the need for adult co-signers on legal documents (e.g.
		Not all such minor restrictions are necessarily tied to the same transitional age, but the transition from minor to adult is typically defined by the age at which one may independently enter into contracts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minor_(law) (269 words)

	MSBA.org - Publications
		Since state law requires that a juvenile who commits a crime be treated differently than an adult, juvenile cases are handled in the Juvenile Court system.
		– When a juvenile violates Maryland’s alcoholics beverage laws, by possessing alcohol, misrepresenting his or her age to purchase alcohol or drinking or possessing intoxicating beverages on school premises, the juvenile receives a citation requiring them to appear in Juvenile Court.
		In Juvenile Court, depending upon the practices of the different localities in Maryland, cases are handled by a judge or by a master.
	www.msba.org /departments/commpubl/publications/brochures/juvenile.htm (965 words)

	Hamilton County Juvenile Court
		The Juvenile Court of Hamilton County is the official assembly for transaction of judicial business and the administration of justice as mandated by local, state and federal law with respect to the constitution of the United States on juvenile matters.
		Children are referred to the Juvenile Court for reasons of delinquent, status offenses, and dependency and neglect issues.
		The court is now involved in much more serious cases, the seriousness of offenses is escalating and the age of the offender is dropping often to below the age of ten.
	www.hamiltontn.gov /Courts/Juvenile (204 words)

	How to Manipulate Juvenile Prosecutors: A Guide for Utah Defense Attorneys to Juvenile Court Law and Procedure
		Juvenile courts exist because children are children, and the criminal justice system does not provide appropriate means to deal with their misbehavior.
		Juvenile judges, assisted by their probation officers, focused on rehabilitating children and were more concerned with administering individualized justice on the child’s behalf than with jumping through procedural hoops intended to guarantee due process.
		The court is supposed to report violent offense adjudications and weapons offense adjudications to the child’s school district; in 2004 the legislature broadened reporting requirements to include some detention hearing results, and directed law enforcement to report certain arrests to the school district.
	www.xmission.com /~wake/utahjuvenilelaw.html (11273 words)

	Superior Court of California - County of Orange
		Juvenile citations for traffic and/or minor offenses, including violations of municipal code ordinances, are issued by law enforcement agencies throughout Orange County.
		Juvenile court records may not be obtained or inspected by civil or criminal subpoena.
		Availability of these records is restricted to certain court personnel, the minor, parents or guardian, attorneys involved in the case, and other persons designated by the Presiding Judge of Juvenile Court.
	www.occourts.org /juvenile (837 words)

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