Juvenile Justice System

What is the Criminal Justice System?

• A system for public safety, crime prevention, and reintegration of offenders.
• A system focused solely on punishing offenders.

What is confinement?

• Keeping someone from leaving a place, such as a prison.
• Allowing someone freedom of movement.

What is an offender?

• A person who commits a crime.
• A person who obeys the law.

What does the term 'youth' refer to?

• Young people, typically teenagers.
• People in their twenties.

What is a juvenile?

• Related to young people who commit crimes.
• Adults who commit crimes.

What does delinquency mean?

• Illegal or immoral behavior by young people.
• Behaving according to societal norms.

What is incarceration?

• The state of having someone in prison.

• To release someone from prison.

What is a facility?

• A building with a specific purpose like a prison or school.
• A place for entertainment or leisure.

What is a convict?

• (Noun) A person found guilty of a crime; (Verb) To prove guilt.
• (Noun) A person who avoids crime; (Verb) To pardon someone.

What is a sentence?

• Punishment given by a court of law.
• The act of avoiding legal punishment.