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The Role Of The Probation Officer In Intake: Stories From Before, During, And After The Delinquency Initial Hearing
No full textThe juvenile probation intake officer stands at the threshold of the delinquency system, ideally positioned to attach to a child the label bad, sad, mad, or can\u27t add -or no label at all.\u27 By attaching the delinquency system label of bad, the probation intake officer determines who makes it into the delinquency system and, in a real sense, who doesn\u27t make it. The central hypothesis of this Article is that a carefully crafted role exists in the law for the juvenile probation office and that intake probation officers do not properly understand and execute their role before, during, and after initial hearings in delinquency cases
Understanding The Overrepresentation Of Youths With Disabilities in Juvenile Detention
No full textYouths with disabling conditions are grossly overrepresented among those detained and confined in juvenile correction systems. Some of the behavior of youths with disabling conditions can be misinterpreted as dangerousness and/or as posing a risk of flight prior to a dispositional hearing. The cognitive and language abilities of some youths may contribute to their poor presentation to juvenile court intake workers and others within the juvenile justice system. This Article briefly profiles four youths with disabling conditions detained at the District of Columbia\u27s Oak Hill Juvenile Detention Center, and discusses how behavior associated with disabling conditions (i.e., learning disabilities, emotional or behavioral disorders, and mental retardation) may be associated with the unnecessary detention of youths
A Matter Of Trust: Imposing Employer Vicarious Liability For The Intentional Torts Of Employees
No full textRace And National Origin As Influential Factors in Juvenile Detention
No full textThe focus of this Article, however, is on the more pervasive problem of overzealous police officers acting on less than probable cause or even less than reasonable articulable suspicion. Police officers may frequently act on hunches or suspicions with the attitude that their actions will not be questioned, especially when the victim is a minor and may not be savvy enough to know his or her legal rights. Officers may believe they can act with impunity because of the combination of socio-economic conditions in public housing areas and in other low-income housing areas, or where there are a substantial number of public assistance recipients, and because of race or national origin. Police officers, including minority officers from impoverished backgrounds, will frequently stop minority children and teenagers in poor, inner-city neighborhoods in situations for which they would not stop such youngsters in more affluent areas or in primarily white neighborhoods
The Right Of Children In The Juvenile Justice System To Inclusion In The Federally Mandated Child Welfare Services System
No full textThe District of Columbia has one of the highest juvenile detention rates and the longest juvenile detention stays of any jurisdiction in the country.\u27 Almost half of the children in Oak Hill, the District\u27s secure juvenile detention facility, have no record of violent or serious offenses. 2 The District\u27s large scale use of detention has increased, rather than decreased, crime. By placing young children charged with minor offenses, such as shoplifting, in daily contact with habitual violent juvenile offenders, Oak Hill serves as a training school for criminal behavior.