Answer to Question 1
Priorities include a balanced and restorative justice approach that emphasizes public safety, individual accountability, and offender services.
Juvenile courts are to provide care, protection, and mental and physical development; to prevent children from committing delinquent acts and have consequences for their criminal behavior through supervision, care, and rehabilitation; to remove children from homes only when necessary; and to assure all parties of their constitutional and other legal rights.
Answer to Question 2
True