Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. The first juvenile court in 1899 in Cook County, Illinois, was driven by one of the most important philosophical shifts that have influenced how we handle accusations of juvenile misbehavior under the law—the idea that young people are developing, and it is only right for adults to recognize this fact and to treat them differently from adults when they do wrong.
2. Juveniles are never deprived of due process rights in the court system.
3. The notion of “you do this to me, so I do this to you” refers to retribution.
4. According to Beccaria, punishment should be slightly more severe than the pleasure derived from a given act, certain, and delivered with celerity, in order for it to effectively deter.
5. When the justice system makes an example out of a criminal for the purposes of keeping the rest of the population from engaging in that behavior, that is known as specific deterrence.

Answer 1

1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False