The manual describes various judicial tasks, procedures, and decisionmaking criteria associated with various stages of case processing. Topics covered include temporary-detention and custody decisions, how to obtain jurisdiction in delinquency cases, written intake information and preliminary inquiry, informal adjustment, the institution of formal proceedings, initial hearing on petition, and waiver of juvenile jurisdiction. Other topics discussed are preadjudicative hearings, the order on factfinding hearing on delinquency petition, the predispositional report, dispositional hearings, court order to parents, appeal, and modification. Miscellaneous forms provided are the petition for general order for fingerprinting and photographing juveniles, the order for fingerprinting and photographing juveniles, the petition to expunge records, and the order granting petition to expunge.