Status offense are illegal only because of the minority status of the offender. They include such misbehavior as truancy, running away, and sexual misconduct.

Researchers have found it easy in defining which family characteristics affect delinquency in children.

Criminology is much like sociology except that it focuses on crime and deviant behavior itself.

Explain the Daniel O’Connell case in your own words and its importance to juvenile justice:

 A judicial waiver occurs when a juvenile court judge denies the juvenile the protection of the juvenile jurisdiction.

Mens rea is the person’s intention to commit a crime or the action itself?

Prior to the 1900s and after the 1800s, youths who broke the law were handled in the same system as adults?

Mens Rea is a Latin term which commonly means a “guilty mind”.

The Alabama Court Act of 1899 established the first official juvenile court in Alabama and in the South?

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