Jj Exam 3

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aftercare

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services delivered to use after they are released from a residental setting and while they are still under a jurisdiction of the state of the juvenile court.

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balanced approach to juvenile justice

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an approached based on the recognition that a community has three needs; to sanction crime, to rehabilitate offenders and to ensure public safety. the balanced approach emphasizes three corresponding goals for JJ; accountability, competency, and public safety.

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chancery court

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English court concerned with primarly with property rights. overtime these courts became more involve in the welfare of families and children, and served as a model for the development of the juvenile court.

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child savers

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affluent 19th-century reformers who were concerned about controlling and training youths so that the youths could become productive, law abiding citizens. the child savers played a major role in the establishment of the juvenile courts.

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continuum of quality services

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a range of effective services consisting of prevention and correctional responses for delinquent youths.

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due processes

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an established course of proceedings designed to protect individual right and liberties and to ensure that people are treated with fairness before the law. although juveniles have most of the due process protections afforded adults in the criminal courts, they do not have all of these rights. more over, because of the informality found in many juvenile courts, legal protection that are theoretically available may in fact unavailable

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"get tough" movement

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A legal reform movement that began during the late 1970's. the goals of the movement included developing a more punitive juvenile court orientation or abolishing the juvenile courts so that more severe sanctions could be leveled against juvenile offenders.

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informal juvenile court

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a court that places little emphasis on due process protection for youths. because juvenile courts exist, in theory, to protect the best interest of children, legal protections for children are felt to be unnecessary within an informal court.

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meta-analysis

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a statistical technique that permits statement about the effects of interventions across a number of different studies.

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parens patriae

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a legal doctine according to which the state has an obligation to protect and serve the interest of children.

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program development and evaluation

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a systematic process of collecting and using data to determine program effectiveness, with the goal of making changes that will improve the level of effectiveness.

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rehabilitation

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the process of restoring an individual's ability to play a constructive role in society through education, training, or therapy.

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therapeutic jurisprudence

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the use of the legal process to promote the psychological and physical well-being of the people it serves.

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youth discount

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a stratagem for taking into account the supposed diminished culpability of youths (based on their immaturity) in the sentencing process. the use of youth discounts would generally result in shorter sentences for juveniles than for adults who committed identical offenses.

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bias

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a tendency, preference, or prejudice, especially one that inhibits objectivity.

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coercive force

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physical force threatened or applied with the intention of influencing an individuals behavior.

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confidentiality

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maintaining information in strict privacy. legal confidentiality requirements prohibits certain information from being made available to the general public.

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conflict of interest.

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a situation in which an induvidual has two intrest that cannot jointly be satisfied.the term is frequently used to refer to cases in which an individual has a responsibility to act in certain way but as other reasons, perhaps self-interested ones, for acting otherwise.

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dis-positional recommendation

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a recomendation made to the court about how a case should be handled.

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ethics

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the principles of right conduct. these principles determine which actions are right and which are wrong.

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family educational rights and privacy act (FERPA)

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a federal law that give the student's parents the right to inspect and review their child's educational records, request amendments to these records, and exert considerable control over the release of those records.

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general educational diploma (GED)

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a high school equvilency diploma awarded to adults who have not graduated from high school but have passed an official test covering a number of academic subjects.

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integrity

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the quality of acting in a moral, sincere, and honest way.

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power

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the ability to influence how other people think or act.

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presumption of innocence

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the presumption that an individual accused of a crime is innocent of that crime until proven guilty. in the u.s. legal system the government has the burden of proving an accused person is guilty rather than the accused person having the burden of proving he or she is innocent.