What is the intake process for a juvenile?

Intake: The process used for every youth referred to juvenile court. Intake involves screening each youth to determine the appropriateness for release or referral to a diversionary program or agency for nonofficial or nonjudicial handling.

What is the process of intake in detention facilities?

Intake into a Secure Care Facility A general search of the youth and his/her possessions is conducted and inventoried by facility staff. At admission, education, medical and mental health staff interview and evaluate each youth. A treatment plan is developed for each youth based on his/her needs.

What is the role of juvenile intake?

Juvenile intake officers handle minors who are referred to their offices by families, law enforcement officials, or other agents. They work with court systems, families, and underage offenders to gather information and make punishment or rehabilitation recommendations.

What is an intake conference for juveniles?

If the juvenile is not held in the YDC, someone from the Department of Juvenile Justice will often contact the family to set up an intake conference. The purpose of the conference is to gather some basic information regarding the juvenile and his family.

What is the most common formal sentence for juveniles?

Incarceration in a public facility is the most common formal sentence for juvenile offenders. Juveniles do not have the protection of the Miranda decision: they do not have the right to remain silent during police interrogation. Acts such as truancy and running away from home are considered status offenses.

What are the 4 steps in the juvenile justice process?

What are the steps or stages in the juvenile justice system? The juvenile justice system is a multistage process: (1) delinquent behavior, (2) referral, (3) intake/diversion, (4) transfer/waiver, (5) detention, (6) adjudication, (7) disposition, (8) juvenile corrections and (9) aftercare.

What is a juvenile waiver?

A Juvenile Waiver occurs whenever a judge decides to transfer a case from juvenile court to an adult court. The juvenile will be tried as an adult and will be denied whatever protections may exist in juvenile proceedings.

What is the maximum sentence for a juvenile?

Juveniles who have been sentenced to youth detention are sent to a young offenders’ institution. The maximum sentence for juveniles aged 16 or 17 is two years.

Can a 10 year old go to juvenile?

Ten (10) is the minimal age for secure detention of a juvenile unless it is a capital offense. Must be at least thirteen (13) years of age in order to be declared as a JSO. The age of 18 triggers adult court jurisdiction.

Can 16 year olds get a death penalty?

The United States Supreme Court prohibits execution for crimes committed at the age of fifteen or younger. Nineteen states have laws permitting the execution of persons who committed crimes at sixteen or seventeen. Twenty-two juvenile offenders have been executed and 82 remain on death row.

What is the most serious punishment that a juvenile court can give?

Detention. A court may also sentence a juvenile to serve time in a juvenile detention center. Similar to jails, detention centers confine the juvenile to a facility. Detention is the most severe punishment a juvenile court can administer.

What is the most common formal sentence for juveniles CH 13?

Ch. 13/14. Incarceration in a public facility is the most common formal sentence for juvenile offenders.

The intake interview consists of the juvenile, parents, Intake Probation Officer and the juvenile’s attorney (if parents/juvenile desire to have one present at the interview) and is conducted at the Juvenile Probation Department. At the Intake interview, the alleged criminal charges will be reviewed.

How old do you have to be to go to juvenile detention?

Typically, their intake process is much shorter and juvenile movement within the facility is restricted for safety reasons. If the offender is under the age of 18 at the time of commitment, they will go directly to OYA for the intake process. For information on juvenile intake, please visit the OYA website.

How long do you stay in juvenile hall?

After the youth is booked into Juvenile Hall, he or she is assigned to an Intake Housing Unit. This is the first unit the youth will be assigned to and they will remain in this unit for three to seven days while attending their first court hearing, called a Detention Hearing.

What are the different types of juvenile detention facilities?

This chapter discusses admission and intake as both an event and as a process in 1) juvenile detention facilities, 2) youth correctional facilities, and 3) adult confinement facilities that hold youth on both a short-term (jail) and long-term basis (prison). This chapter presents a separate section for each scenario.

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