Legal Definition and Related Resources of Juvenile Court

A court having special jurisdiction of a paternal nature over delinquent and neglected children. The jurisdiction of such a court is purely statutory. Such a court is not strictly a criminal court in the usual sense since its purpose is not that of punishment of the juvenile but the prevention of delinquency and rehabilitation of the juvenile. See 42 U.S.C. §3801 et seq.

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Juvenile Court in Historical Law

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Translate Juvenile Court from English to Spanish

Translation of Juvenile Court, with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Tribunal de menores and other legal terms is available here.

• Tribunal de menores
• Legal English Translation

Juvenile Court in the law of the United States

Juvenile Court: Related U.S. Resources

• Juvenile Court in the American Law Encyclopedia
• Judicial Organization Keywords in the U.S. Legal Corpus
• Judicial Organization Topics in the United States Legal Dictionary

See Also

Limited Jurisdiction Court (in the U.S. Legal Encyclopedia) Specialized Court (in the U.S. Legal Encyclopedia).

Juvenile court in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of juvenile court.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• juvenile court in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• juvenile court in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

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• Court, Juvenile

Hierarchical Display of Juvenile court

Law > Organisation of the legal system > Legal system > Ordinary court of law
Social Questions > Social affairs > Social problem > Delinquency > Juvenile delinquency
Law > Civil law > Civil law > Legal status > Legal capacity > Infancy

Meaning of Juvenile court

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Translation of Juvenile court

• Spanish: Jurisdicción de menores
• French: Juridiction pour mineurs
• German: Jugendgerichtsbarkeit
• Italian: Giurisdizione minorile
• Portuguese: Jurisdição de menores
• Polish: Sądownictwo dla nieletnich

Thesaurus of Juvenile court

Law > Organisation of the legal system > Legal system > Ordinary court of law > Juvenile court
Social Questions > Social affairs > Social problem > Delinquency > Juvenile delinquency > Juvenile court
Law > Civil law > Civil law > Legal status > Legal capacity > Infancy > Juvenile court

See also

• Juvenile delinquency
• Infancy