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Definition of Juvenile court
1. Noun. A court having jurisdiction over dependent and delinquent children.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Juvenile Court
Literary usage of Juvenile court
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"No person should ever be tried in a rural juvenile court for the commission of
a crime. So far as children are concerned the very prime purpose of a ..."
2. State Responses to Serious & Violent Juvenile Crime by Patricia Torbet, Richard Gable, Imogene Montgomery (1996)
"(See figure 9 at the end of the chapter for a list of States that passed legislation
from 1992 through 1995 addressing juvenile court records and ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... has been made doubly hard in recent years by two circumstances: First by the
beneficent work of the juvenile court, with the probation system. ..."
4. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"The juvenile court Movement. The first official juvenile court in the United ...
The rapid spread of the juvenile court idea is a marked instance of the ..."
5. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"In Munich the juvenile court has changed ime to the Child Welfare Court, and men
women representing the trade unions and labor organizations have been added ..."
6. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1915)
"This development of the juvenile-court idea has been advocated by such an ...
Cleveland is making an interesting experiment with a junior juvenile court. ..."
7. Administration and Educational Work of American Juvenile Reform Schools by David Snedden (1907)
"CHAPTER XI THE juvenile court AND PROBATION THE juvenile court and the Probation
... The progress of the juvenile court movement has been very rapid and, ..."
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