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juvenile court

NOUN
  1. a court having jurisdiction over dependent and delinquent children

How To Use juvenile court In A Sentence

  • Starr said a juvenile court would try to work to help the children rather than punish them.
  • In October 2000, the Post-Gazette asked judges in two counties to permit the press and public into two high-profile juvenile court cases involving abused and neglected children.
  • Young people between the ages of ten and sixteen are usually dealt with in the Juvenile Court. Working with Teenagers
  • Many juvenile court advocates harshly criticized how the police handled young offenders.
  • The youth, of Rostraver Township was adjudicated delinquent in juvenile court and placed in a residential program.
  • The hearing at a juvenile court yesterday took place behind closed doors. Times, Sunday Times
  • No child could be detained for a lengthy period of time without an order from juvenile court.
  • She wasn't sent to the juvenile court; instead she was cautioned.
  • A new generation of professional charity workers appeared; many of them were college trained women who practiced ‘scientific philanthropy’ in settlement houses, orphan asylums, juvenile courts and reformatories.
  • The teenagers, all of whom are incarcerated at Alameda County juvenile hall, will undergo closed juvenile court proceedings.
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