1. CHAPTER 1 Juvenile Justice: Definitions, Measurements and Process

2. DO YOU KNOW – LEARNING OBJECTIVES
What parens patriae is and why it is important in juvenile justice?
What the most common upper age for original juvenile court jurisdiction is?
How researchers measure the nature and extent of youthful offending?
What the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reports measures?
How prevalent delinquency is according to self-reports?
What the terminology of the contemporary juvenile justice system emphasizes?
What issues the contemporary juvenile justice system faces?
How the contemporary conservative and liberal approaches to juvenile justice differ?

3. Introduction: The Scope of the Juvenile Justice System
Who Is a Juvenile?
What Is Justice?

4. Measuring the Number of Juvenile Victimizations and Offenses
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
The Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
The UCR and NCVS Compared
Self-Reports

5. The Media's Effect on Public Perception of Juveniles

6. Terminology

7. Organization and Structure of Juvenile Justice

8. The Juvenile Justice Process
Arrest
Referral
Intake
Diversion
Detention
Petitioning/Charges Filed
Adjudication Hearing/Delinquency Finding
Dispositional Hearing
Probation
Confinement in a Secure Correctional Facility
Transfer to Adult Court

9. The Juvenile Justice System and Criminal Justice System Compared Issues in Juvenile Justice
To Divert or Not?
Which Is More Just: A Conservative or a Liberal Approach to Delinquency?
Confidentiality versus Openness
Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC)