Define the four types of juvenile waiver.
What will be an ideal response?
Judicial waiver: if the judge believes the youth cannot be helped through treatment efforts in the juvenile system. Direct files: if the prosecutor believes that the offense and offender warrant harsher punishment. Automatic transfer: by legislative action to transfer juveniles of certain ages designated in statutes for offenses such as murder.
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The homeless are often passive victims of predatory crime
a. True b. False
The most powerful nonparametric equivalent to the t test is the:
a. one way analysis of variance test. b. Mann Whitney U test. c. Newman Keuls procedure. d. Scheffé procedure.
The purpose of the social function of law is to
A. socialize offenders. B. reflect values and norms of society. C. rehabilitate offenders. D. preserve common law.
A type of waiver to adult court in which a juvenile court judge makes the decision to waive a juvenile to adult court is called ________.
A. discretionary judicial waiver B. legislative waiver C. judicial waiver D. prosecutorial waiver