Much discretion is exercised in juvenile police work because of the informality that has been built into the system in an attempt to:

a. punish in order to show retribution.
b. incapacitate and deter the juvenile.
c. individualize justice.
d. formally shame the youth.


Ans: c. individualize justice.

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A) carries an expectation of privacy from everyone except from the trash pick up person. B) carries an Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy in the original owner which cannot be defeated by police activity. C) still carries an expectation of privacy since the person abandoning the property still expects that only the trash people will look through it. D) no longer has any desire to assert ownership or assert any expectation of privacy in the property. E) none of the above statements is a correct response.

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