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The Process of the Juvenile Court MCQ

Is waiver to adult court the process by which it is decided whether a juvenile will be handled in the juvenile justice system or the adult justice system?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the expanded use of detention to include the consideration of whether a juvenile will engage in delinquent offenses while awaiting his or her hearing.

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Correct Answer: Preventive detention

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_____ is defined as the stage at which a juvenile can be kept in detention prior to his or her adjudication hearing.

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Correct Answer: Preadjudication detention

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_____ is the process by which the juvenile agrees to plead guilty to a crime in exchange for a lower charge or lesser disposition (sentence).

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Correct Answer: Plea bargain

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Is petition a short statement of the facts of an alleged crime that are filed in the juvenile court?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as when more juveniles get drawn into the juvenile justice system due to diversion programs.

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Correct Answer: Net-widening

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_____ is defined as the process by which it is determined whether a juvenile is safe in his or her home with his or her guardians or parents.

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Correct Answer: Juvenile dependency process

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_____ is the most common type of waiver to the adult court in which a judge or magistrate has the discretion to transfer a juvenile to adult criminal court.

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Correct Answer: Judicial waiver

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Is intake an initial screening stage at which the intake officer determines whether a juvenile’s case should be dismissed from the system or should be referred to the system for either informal or formal services?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as crossover youth who are receiving services from both the juvenile justice and dependency courts simultaneously.

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Correct Answer: Dually involved youth

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_____ is defined as dually involved youth who have actually been adjudicated by both the juvenile justice and dependency courts.

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Correct Answer: Dually adjudicated youth

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_____ is a process that allows the juvenile justice system to offer programs designed to help a juvenile without the young person having to go formally through the system.

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Correct Answer: Diversion

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Is disproportionate minority contact the disproportionate number of minority youth who come into contact with the juvenile justice system?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the stage at which it is determined what punishment a juvenile will receive for his or her alleged acts of delinquency.

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Correct Answer: Disposition

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_____ is defined as any youth who has experienced abuse or neglect and engaged in delinquency whether formally in either system or not.

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Correct Answer: Crossover youth

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_____ is the division of a trial into two parts, for example, an adjudication hearing and a disposition hearing.

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Correct Answer: Bifurcated hearing

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Is automatic waiver a list of offenses for which a juvenile is automatically moved to the adult system?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the stage at which a juvenile goes before the court for a hearing in which it is determined whether the juvenile did or did not engage in the alleged crimes.

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Correct Answer: Adjudication

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During the ______, a determination is made about what should happen to the juvenile including whether the case should be dismissed or informally or formally referred to the system.

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Correct Answer: Intake

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Juvenile proceedings have some similarities to that of an adult criminal trial.

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Correct Answer: True

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The Probation Officer is appointed by the court to represent the “best interest” of the juvenile, while that juvenile is involved in court proceedings.

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Correct Answer: False

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______ is the most common type of waiver to the adult court in which a judge or magistrate has the discretion to transfer a juvenile to adult criminal court for his or her alleged acts of delinquency.

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Correct Answer: Judicial waiver

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The ______ stage is the equivalent of an adult criminal trial.

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Correct Answer: Adjudication

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Unlike the transfer to the adult system, diversion is a condition that can only happen at one stage.

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Correct Answer: False

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The process of unequal treatment is referred to as cumulative disadvantage.

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Correct Answer: True

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Each state is responsible for maintaining its own court structure.

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Correct Answer: True

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Juveniles can progress through or leave the system at several stages of the process.

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Correct Answer: True

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Within the justice system, the ______ are likely the first contact.

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Correct Answer: Police

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