Course Intro: You will become familiar with the definition (by MA law) of a juvenile. Including age requirements & the courts various age jurisdictions for delinquency, youthful offender, child requiring assistance (CRA) & care and protection (C&P) cases.
Topics Covered:
- Charging Juveniles: During this section, you will learn more about the Juvenile Court criminal complaint process.
- Child Requiring Assistance: Here you will learn more about Child Requiring Assistance (CRA) petitions (old CHINS). We will discuss the various types of CRA’s (Stubborn, Runaway, CSEC, Truancy, Habitual School Offender), who can file these petitions, age jurisdictions, and the CRA court process.
- Working with Probation & Other State Agencies: Here we will discuss your best local resources when it comes to the juveniles in your community. We will discuss various trends we are seeing in the juvenile court, what we are seeing in the streets, age trends, crime trends & gang trends.
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