Not logged in : Login
(Sponging disallowed)

About: Juvenile court     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : foaf:Concept, within Data Space : openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://openlinksw.com/c/9svGqLJHxv

AttributesValues
focus
Description
  • A juvenile court or young offender's court is a court of law having special authority to try and pass judgments for crimes committed by children or adolescents who have not attained the age of majority. In most modern legal systems, crimes committed by children and minors are treated differently and differentially regarding the same crimes committed by adults. Severe offenses, like murder or gang-related acts, in 44 states of the USA are treated the same as crimes committed by adults: "Beginning around 35 years ago, increases in violent juvenile crime permitted judges to transfer juveniles to adult-criminal courts. No national data exist on the number of juvenile offenders prosecuted as adults." "The main difference between a juvenile court and an adult court in England is that the juvenile court has a much wider jurisdiction in terms of the offenses it can try. It can deal with a juvenile for any offense except homicide, although it is not bound to deal with a young person for a...
Title
  • Juvenile court
providedBy
type
is seeAlso of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git151 as of Feb 20 2025


Alternative Linked Data Documents: iSPARQL | ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3332 as of Dec 6 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc25), Single-Server Edition (46 GB total memory, 19 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software