MIDTERMS CHAP 1 Flashcards
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Denotes various offenses committed by children or youth. Such acts are sometimes referred to as juvenile delinquency.
JUVENILE CRIME
Juvenile crime denotes various offenses committed by children or youth. Such acts are sometimes referred to as _____.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Since ancient times, enlightened legal systems have distinguished between juvenile delinquents and adult criminals. The immature generally were not considered morally responsible for their behavior.
CODE OF NAPOLEON IN FRANCE
Despite of the apparent humanity of some early statutes, however, the punishment of juvenile offenders until the _____ was often severe.
19TH CENTURY
The first institution expressly for juvenile was founded in New York City in 1825 so that that institutionalized delinquents could be kept apart from adult criminals.
HOUSE OF REFUGE
The juvenile justice system began to develop, and jurisdiction over criminal acts by children was transferred from adult courts to the newly created _____.
JUVENILE COURTS
Is mentioned as far back as ancient Sumerian and Hammurabi, where laws concerning juvenile offenders first appeared in written form.
JUVENILE CRIME
Children at the age of seven were tried, convicted, and punished as adults. There was no special treatment for them, a hanging was a hanging.
ANCIENT BRITAIN
Is that life was hard, and you had to be hard to survive. People at the time did not have the conveniences that we take for granted.
FIRST ASSUMPTION
Is that infant and child mortality were high. It did not make sense to the parents in those days to create an emotional bond with children. There was a strong chance that the children would not survive to adulthood.
SECOND ASSUMPTION
A new cultural transition appeared. This period of history is sometimes known as the beginning of reason and humanism. People began to see children as flowers that needed nurturing in order to bloom. They had finally began to emerge as a distinct group.
END OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Is a criminal or anti-social behavior of children and youth. Juvenile delinquents are usually considered in need of treatment, rehabilitation, or discipline, more serious offenses committed by minors may be tried in criminal court and subject to prison sentences.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
A crime is an illegal act committed by a person who has criminal intent. A long- standing presumption held that, children under fifteen years old were unlikely to have criminal intent. Many juvenile courts have now discarded this so-called infancy defense, finding that delinquent acts can be committed by children of any age.
ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW
Is an anti – social behavior or act which differs from the normal model of set of laws and parameters, culture, custom which society in broad – spectrum does not conform.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Generally refers to youth behavior which is against norm and regulations of society, which if left unchecked would give rise to criminality.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Is used to describe a large number of disapprove behaviors of children or youths. In this sense, almost anything that the youth does which others do not like is _____.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Is used the behavior specifically defined as delinquent according to the various existing laws and ordinance concerning children or youth.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Refers to youths who have been successfully defined as delinquents.
JUVENILE DELINQUENT
Exempts children under the age of seven from the criminal courts because they lack “mens rea” or criminal intent required for criminal conviction.
COMMON LAW
Is perceived as a man or a woman who has physically grown and reached mature size and strength.
ADULT
The special status of children became even more clearly defined and the parameters around their place and participation in society delimited. The values of extended dependency and formal education, and the absence of fulfilling roles, evolved into social realities. What developed in society was the emergence of the new life-stage to identify the period in life in which a young person was not yet considered an adult. The concept of adolescence was socially created to describe that period.
20TH CENTURY
Began to be used when a particular country enacted law establishing the legal age for adulthood. Referred to any person under the legal age of majority. Hence, the term encompasses a broader age range than adolescence, which is generally considered to begin with the onset of puberty.
JUVENILE
Are young people who are regarded as immature one whose mental as well as emotional faculties are not fully developed thus making them incapable of taking full responsibility of their actions.
JUVENILES
Is a person subject to juvenile court proceedings because of statutory defined event or condition caused by or affecting that person and was alleged to have occurred while his or her age was below the age limit.
JUVENILE
