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Exam 2: Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice: Origins and Transformation

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By 1925, all but two states had juvenile court laws.

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The presumption of __________ acknowledged that young people could not be held legally responsible for their offenses because they lacked physical and mental maturity.

A) innocence
B) incapacity
C) rehabilitation
D) justice

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Reform schools typically used a cottage or family system.

Contemporary state statutes that define juvenile delinquency typically include four legal categories. Which of the following is NOT one of these categories?

The early juvenile court assumed jurisdiction over what types of cases?

Poor Laws gave authority to the government to separate poor children from their parents.

Which of the following Supreme Court cases dealt with the issue of double jeopardy?

The reform school provided the context for the first significant legal challenge to the parens patriae doctrine in the Illinois Supreme Court case:

The first House of Refuge in the United States was established where in 1824?

Research evidence on adolescent development and effective responses to adolescent offending has led to the contemporary juvenile justice reform emphasizing:

The first juvenile court in the United States was created in 1859.

What term refers to the belief, prominent in the 1800s, that children growing up in poverty, surrounded by depravity in their neighborhood and family, are destined to a life of crime and degradation?

The parens patriae doctrine was introduced into American law in an 1838 Pennsylvania Supreme Court case called:

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 specified four areas of reform regarding the use of secure detention of juveniles. Which of the following was NOT one of these areas of reform?

During the 1800s, moral reform in houses of refuge involved four basic elements. Which of the following was NOT one of those elements?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile (1762) presented a clear departure from earlier depictions of children by advancing the concept of:

Which English legal doctrine was applied most extensively to cases in which the guardianship of young children was at issue?

Parens patriae doctrine was introduced into American law in an 1818 Virginia Supreme Court case.

In McKeiver v. Pennsylvania (1971) , what Constitutional right was in question?

The Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899 created the first separate system of juvenile justice in the United States.