Sentence examples for delinquency cases from inspiring English sources

In 2009, there were 1.5 million juvenile delinquency cases in the United States.

And among the juvenile delinquency cases, many grow out of the typical defiance and poor judgment of adolescence.

Generally, the Legal Aid Society represents children, including most in delinquency cases, and the court-appointed lawyers represent adults.

Los Angeles County's figures do not include most of the minor offenses, but do include about 50,000 juvenile delinquency cases, which New York's do not.

"There's an old saying," said Molly Armstrong of the Vera Institute of Justice, which runs a program for foster children in delinquency cases.

Instead, the new weekend system allows a judge who is already hearing adult cases in Manhattan Criminal Court on a weekend day to also spend part of the afternoon hearing juvenile delinquency cases.

Delinquency represents a distinct case.

"Increased subprime lending has been associated with higher levels of delinquency, foreclosure and, in some cases, abusive lending practices".

"It is my opinion," Wertham told the senators and the cameras, "without any reasonable doubt and without any reservation, that comic books are an important contributing factor in many cases of juvenile delinquency".

According to Adam Mansky, the centre's co-ordinator, "the goal is to improve public confidence in the justice system by returning the court to the community it serves".Housed in a long-empty school in the shadow of the notorious Red Hook Houses estate, the Justice Centre will be used as a court for minor criminal cases and juvenile delinquency, domestic violence and landlord-tenant proceedings.

In Chicago, for example, in 1903 there were 56 cases of black delinquency presented before a judge; in 1930, there were 657 cases.