LAWS C218 - Juvenile Law

Institution:

Duquesne University

Subject:

LAWS - Law School

Description:

This course is intended to provide students with a comprehensive foundation for understanding the juvenile justice system and how law influences and impacts the relationships among minors, parents, and the state in three major areas: constitutional guarantees, dependency jurisdiction, and delinquency jurisdiction. The course will also highlight policy issues related to these major areas, including points that require cross- disciplinary investigation and evaluation for development and devising legislation. Selected topics in these major areas of concentration will entail curfew laws, religious beliefs in decision making, constitutional rights guaranteed to minors, school restrictions on constitutional freedoms, ethical and professional responsibilities to minors, minors' decision making for medical care, rights afforded juveniles in delinquency proceedings, transfer laws and procedures, minors as research subjects in experimentation, dependency and the responsibilities of state agencies in cases of dependent minors, and termination of parental rights. Evaluation will be based on class colloquium and final examination.

Credits:

2.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.duq.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 396-6000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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