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What does the Dependency Court do? The law says that Dependency Court has to protect the minors in the juvenile court. The court tries to keep minors with their families and make the families stronger. The court will take a minor from the parents if it has to for the child's well being and safety.

The major components of the juvenile justice system are also featured, including law enforcement, prosecution and the courts, and corrections. Corrections is presented in a broad context, with each correctional component described.

The key philosophical principles of the juvenile court movement: • The state is the “higher or ultimate parent.” • Children are worth saving. Children should be nurtured. Justice needs to be individualized. The needs of the child mandate use of noncriminal procedures.

JV-100 Juvenile Dependency Petition (Version One) (Welfare and Institutions Code, § 300 et seq.) Page 1. JV-100. For counties filing a separate dependency petition for each child or for counties using Additional Children Attachment (form JV-101(A)) ATTORNEY OR PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY (Name, State Bar number, and address ...

When children come to court because a parent has hurt them or not taken care of them, this is a juvenile dependency case. Until a child grows up, he or she is dependent on adults and needs their protection.

To hold youth who commit crimes accountable for their actions. To provide individualized assessments to rehabilitate and prevent further delinquent behavior through the development of educational, vocational, social, emotional and basic life skills which enable youth to grow and mature.

Family characteristics such as poor parenting skills, family size, home discord, child maltreatment, and antisocial parents are risk factors linked to juvenile delinquency (Derzon and Lipsey, 2000; Wasserman and Seracini, 2001).

The first hearing is called the Detention Hearing. At this hearing: The Court gives the parents a notice about what is going on (the “proceedings”). The parents get a copy of the petition and any other papers for the case. The Court tells the parents what can happen in a dependency case.