Appendix to Legislative Resource Manual for Implementation of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

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U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1979 - Počet stran: 285
 

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Strana 9 - This act shall be liberally construed to the end that its purpose may be carried out, to wit : that the care, custody, and discipline of a child shall approximate, as nearly as may be, that which should be given by its parents...
Strana 6 - ... whose home, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part of its parents, guardian or other person in whose care it may be, is an unfit place for such child...
Strana 209 - There is evidence, in fact, that there may be grounds for concern that the child receives the worst of both worlds: that he gets neither the protections accorded to adults nor the solicitous care and regenerative treatment postulated for children.
Strana 55 - It fairly may, and in our judgment does, import any conduct on the part of the parent, which evinces a settled purpose to forego all parental duties, and relinquish all parental claims to the child.
Strana 131 - Nothing in this act shall be construed as forbidding any peace officer, police officer or probation officer from immediately taking into custody any child who is found violating any law or ordinance, or who is reasonably believed to be a fugitive from his parents or from justice, or whose surroundings are such as to endanger his health, morals or welfare, unless immediate action is taken.
Strana 9 - That the care, custody and discipline of a child shall approximate as nearly as may be that which should be given by its parents, and in all cases where it can properly be done, the child to be placed in an approved family home and become a member of the family by legal adoption or otherwise.
Strana 5 - The infant has been snatched from a course which must have ended in confirmed depravity ; and, not only is the restraint of her person lawful, but it would be an act of extreme cruelty to release her from it :
Strana 6 - Act the words dependent child and neglected child shall mean any child who for any reason is destitute or homeless or abandoned; or dependent upon the public for support; or has not proper parental care or guardianship; or who habitually begs or receives alms; or who is found living in any house of ill fame or with any vicious or disreputable person; or whose home, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part of its parents, guardian or other person in whose care it may be, is an unfit...
Strana 63 - Neglected child" means a child less than eighteen years of age: (a) whose physical, mental or emotional condition has been impaired or is in imminent danger of becoming impaired as a result of the failure of his parent or other person legally responsible for his care to exercise a minimum degree of care...
Strana 27 - ... habitually so deports himself as to injure or endanger the morals or health of himself or others.

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