Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Top Ten Tips
Introduction
PART I: The Juvenile Justice Process
1. Overview of Juvenile Court
2. Interrogation: What the Police Don’t Want You to Know
3. Arrest
4. The Detention Hearing: Will They Keep the Child in Custody until Trial?
5. Pretrial Issues: What to Do between the Detention Hearing and the Trial
6. Should the Child Take a Deal or Go to Trial?
7. Will the Juvenile Record Go Away When the Child Becomes an Adult?
8. Disposition Hearing (Sentencing): Asking the Court to Provide the Services the Child Needs
9. How to Succeed on Probation
10. When the Child Is Sent to Residential Placement
PART II: Important Issues and Special Populations
11. Transferring Children to Adult Criminal Court
12. School Search Issues
13. When Children Get Suspended or Expelled: School Discipline Issues and Zero-Tolerance Policies
14. Special Education Issues
15. Does Race Matter?
16. Children with Mental Health Issues
17. Institutional Abuse: Is the Child in Danger?
18. The Special Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth
19. The Special Needs of Girls
20. When the Child Is Charged with a Sexual Offense
Resources
Index