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2756 Petition: a formal document filed by a court counselor requesting that charges be brought against a juvenile.Juveniles are entitled to a probable cause hearing if they are charged with felonies. 2756 Probation: a court-2010ordered period of supervision for a juvenile who has been adjudicated as delinquent.

Delinquency proceeding refers to a proceeding in a juvenile court. A juvenile delinquency proceeding is a civil action rather than a criminal proceeding.

How are juvenile cases handled? In North Carolina, juvenile cases are sent to the state district courts for hearings. These courts have authority over delinquent and undisciplined juveniles.

An adjudicated delinquent is a youth who has been found guilty by a judge of committing a delinquent act. The court can commit an adjudicated juvenile or place the juvenile on community control.A juvenile is not "arrested", but "taken into custody" under the identical circumstances.

A delinquency petition is a petition that is filed by the prosecuting attorney in cases where a child under 18 years of age commits a delinquent act. The delinquency petition must state the acts which bring the juvenile within the court's jurisdiction.

Even kids can run afoul of the law. Once this happens and a child enters the criminal justice system, they may be deemed a "juvenile delinquent." Juvenile delinquents are minors, usually defined as being between the ages of 10 and 18, who have committed some act that violates the law.

Petition: A document filed in juvenile court alleging that a juvenile is a delinquent or a status offender and asking that the court assume jurisdiction over the juvenile or that an alleged delinquent be transferred to criminal court for prosecution as an adult.

Juvenile court: Any court that has jurisdiction over matters involving juveniles.In non-petitioned (informally handled) cases, duly authorized court personnel, having screened the case, decide not to file a formal petition.

Although courts with juvenile jurisdiction handle a variety of cases, including abuse, neglect, adoption, and traffic violations, the Juvenile Court Statistics series focuses on the disposition of delinquency cases and formally pro- cessed status offense cases.