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Juvenile court   /dʒˈuvənəl kɔrt/   Listen
Juvenile court

noun
1.
A court having jurisdiction over dependent and delinquent children.






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"Juvenile court" Quotes from Famous Books



... Caribbean Supreme Court, consisting of the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal (one judge of the Supreme Court is a resident of the islands and presides over the High Court); Magistrate's Court; Juvenile Court; Court of Summary Jurisdiction ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... of the social safeguards by which she is hedged and surrounded." Under the free social order of America to-day much the same results are found. In an instructive article ("Why Girls Go Wrong," Ladies' Home Journal, Jan., 1907) B.B. Lindsey, who, as Judge of the Juvenile Court of Denver, is able to speak with authority, brings forward ample evidence on this head. Both girls and boys, he has found, sometimes possess manuscript books in which they had written down the crudest sexual things. These children were often sweet-faced, pleasant, ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis



Words linked to "Juvenile court" :   court, tribunal, judicature



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