CASE 15.2 Keith Reed, a 15-Year-Old White Male with No Prior Arrests

question 15

Multiple Choice

CASE 15.2
Keith Reed, a 15-year-old white male with no prior arrests is brought in for questioning for larceny of several hundred dollars worth of computer parts from a warehouse in downtown Cincinnati. Using this information, walk Mr. Reed through the juvenile court system.
-If the decision was to leave the juvenile in the adult criminal courts; the decision of the judge to place the offender in a correctional facility would be called:

• A)Placement.
• B)Commitment.
• C)Charging.
• D)Disposition.

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