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Automated Juvenile Law Archive: Juvenile Code Statutes and/or Statutes Analyses

NCJ Number
151797
Date Published
1992
Length
8 pages
Annotation
This catalogue describes documents produced by the Automated Juvenile Law Archive, a computerized database of State juvenile codes.
Abstract
The documents pertain to various subjects, including ages of juvenile court jurisdiction, bail provisions, confidentiality, confinement, corrections, court administration of services, definitions, detentions, dispositions, drug and alcohol accountability legislation, emancipation, and evaluations. Other topics listed here include family treatment, fingerprints, guardians, informal adjustments, intake proceeding, jail removal, judges, jurisdiction, juvenile codes, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, mental health, and parental responsibility. The catalogue includes research documents on placement of children, purpose clauses, records, referees, representation, restitution, rights of juveniles, runaways, serious offenders, State training schools, traffic offenders, treatment, truancy, victim's rights, and waivers.