Juvenile Court Observation

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After going over the various observations I made after watching twenty-one cases in juvenile court, was the differences between the juvenile court, to the adult court, and trends that I noticed while observing the hearings. The first difference I noticed was that the Johnson County juvenile court separated the order in which cases are tried, with the cases for less serious offenses first, then the juveniles who were detained were the last ones to be tried. The second difference I noticed was that during the observation, the judge called for a reset court date on several, which lead to cases to be decided on a different date. Now when going over the trends I noticed while observing. While I failed to correctly choose the proper variables needed

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