When kids get arrested what every adult should know /
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Overview of the juvenile court
- Interrogation : what the police don't what you to know
- Arrest
- The detention hearing : will they keep the child in custody until trial?
- Pretrial issues : what to do between the detention hearing and the trial
- Should the child take a deal or go to trial?
- Will the juvenile record go away when the child becomes an adult?
- Disposition hearing (sentencing) : asking the court to provide the services the child needs
- How to succeed on probation
- When the child is sent to residential placement
- Transferring children to adult criminal court
- School search issues
- When children get suspended or expelled : school discipline and zero-tolerance policies
- Special education issues
- Does race matter?
- Children with mental health issues
- Institutional abuse : is the child in danger?
- The special needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth
- The special needs of girls
- When the child is charged with a sexual offense.