Chapter 9 Self Check Quiz

. Correctional institutions designed to focus on rehabilitation by providing education and tangible skills to help youth become productive members of society were known as:

. This activist was responsible for advocating hard labor and imprisonment of youths instead of physical discipline:

. In the late 1700's a group of people, many who were Quakers, advocated for the death penalty as a form of punishment for youths.

. The idea of creating an institution that could isolate arrested delinquents from adult criminals was the work of:

. This facility was founded in Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr as a settlement house to provide services such as education and assistance to the poor. Addams and Starr eventually led the challenge to the failing conditions in various Houses of Refuge across the US.

. When was the first juvenile court established in the United States:

. In 1974 Congress passed the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Act which called for:

. Which one of the following has the US Supreme Court described as a purpose of punishment?

. As a result of further Federal intervention in the Juvenile Justice System, States may not incarcerate youth for more than 7 hours for a violation of a court order relating to a status offense.

. This stage of juvenile proceedings is similar to a sentencing in adult court:

. Another person besides a juvenile's attorney who has authority to make recommendations for sanction in a juvenile's case.

. A sentence of probation may be given in the following situation(s):

. It is a violation of a juvenile's right to privacy to order participation in a treatment program as part of a probation sentence.

. The most severe sanction that a juvenile court can impose is restricting a juvenile's freedom by placing them in a facility.

. This Federal Act made a prior Executive Order banning solitary confinement of juveniles in federal public prisons a law:

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