List the roles and responsibilities of various personnel in a juvenile court

What will be an ideal response?


The answer should include the following points:


  • juvenile judge—responsibilities—choosing juvenile judges (the Missouri Plan)—change the quality of juvenile justice

  • referee—may or may not be a member of the bar; hear cases at the fact-finding and detention hearings and may even adjudicate cases at the discretion of the judge

  • defense attorney—adversarial advocate; surrogate guardian; or assistant to the court—guardian ad litem

  • prosecutor—role in every stage of the proceedings

  • probation officer—developing interfaces between the probation department and community agencies that service children, and managing cases from intake through aftercare—four different orientations

  • nonjudicial support personnel—volunteers, staff from agencies providing services to the court, and paid workers who perform routine administrative functions

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