What policy might entail taking youths from the province of the juvenile court and placing them under the auspices of youth service bureaus, welfare agencies, or special schools?

A. decriminalization
B. diversion
C. due process
D. deinstitutionalization


B. diversion

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A common criticism of Aristotle’s theory is that it is an ethics ______.

a. for the ruling classes b. without flexibility for difficult situations c. that fails to take happiness into account d. that ignores character issues

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As public officers, the police are supposed to be:

a. authoritarian. b. service-oriented. c. autocratic. b. subjectively-centered. e. all of the above.

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The first juvenile court was established in _____

a. 1850 b. 1899 c. 1920 d. 1945

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Human relations theory resulted from the introduction of what development?

a. the Hawthorne experiments in Chicago b. Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory c. McGregor's X and Y theory d. all of these choices

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