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3540
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Juvenile court counselors function in many roles, including social worker and probation officer. They deal with juveniles charged with felonies or other offenses and insure that the court system handles them in a way that is in the best interest of all.
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17850
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In 1963, the General Assembly rewrote school attendance law which made attendance counselors compulsory and to direct state funds to the hiring of such counselors. These counselors were tasked with overseeing cases of delinquency and truancy in students under the age of sixteen. Based on specifics of certain cases, the author analyzes a counselor's option and the level of involvement by the juvenile court.
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18358
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The decade of the 1970s has been a period of change in juvenile justice in North Carolina. Thomas examines actions taken in the past decade and where juvenile justice in the state is going for the next decade.
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29071
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A proposal to increase the age of juvenile jurisdiction in North Carolina could keep about eleven thousand teenagers out of the state's adult court system each year, beginning in December 2019. This would direct sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds charged with misdemeanors and two classes of nonviolent felonies to juvenile court.
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29943
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The Jones case involved a fifteen-year-old who was adjudicated undisciplined for being unlawfully absent from school forty-three times. The North Carolina Court of Appeals held that an undisciplined juvenile’s noncriminal activity that constitutes a willful violation of the terms of a court order cannot be grounds for adjudication that the child is delinquent.
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29946
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The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that juvenile custodial interrogation warnings set out in the Juvenile Code must be given to sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds. This memorandum discusses the ruling and its effect on the duties of law enforcement officers and the admissibility of evidence at trial.
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