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When kids get arrested : what every adult should know /
"Every year, millions of children across the country get arrested. What most adults do not know is that the juvenile justice system has become much more punitive in the last fifteen years. No longer is juvenile court a place where regardless of what happens you get a clean slate when you turn e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Overview of the juvenile court
- Interrogation : what the police don't what you to know
- Arrest
- The detention hearing : will they keep the child in custody until trial?
- Pretrial issues : what to do between the detention hearing and the trial
- Should the child take a deal or go to trial?
- Will the juvenile record go away when the child becomes an adult?
- Disposition hearing (sentencing) : asking the court to provide the services the child needs
- How to succeed on probation
- When the child is sent to residential placement
- Transferring children to adult criminal court
- School search issues
- When children get suspended or expelled : school discipline and zero-tolerance policies
- Special education issues
- Does race matter?
- Children with mental health issues
- Institutional abuse : is the child in danger?
- The special needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth
- The special needs of girls
- When the child is charged with a sexual offense.