How to Use juvenile delinquency in a Sentence

juvenile delinquency

noun
  • For one of them, running saved him from juvenile delinquency.
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 7 June 2019
  • The day’s hearing, the ones listed on the docket include guardianship and juvenile delinquency cases.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, azcentral, 31 July 2019
  • The prosecution of a 12-year-old girl would be handled in the juvenile delinquency system rather than in adult criminal court, Kimpel said.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Roy Norquist, the city’s first probation officer, thought the lack of a swimming pool contributed to juvenile delinquency.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2020
  • When Tjay was 15, his juvenile delinquency had resulted in a yearlong sentence for a robbery.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
  • In a petition for juvenile delinquency, the teen faces eight felony counts of first-degree reckless injury, and one misdemeanor count of possessing a firearm while under 18.
    Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2020
  • When Pierce was young, her mother volunteered at a youth home in Fort Wayne that engaged with juvenile delinquency cases, and Pierce and her brothers would join her in serving at holiday parties for the youth there.
    Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Dec. 2020
  • That drew the attention of a psychiatrist named Fredric Wertham, who became famous for his crusade against comic books as a major cause of juvenile delinquency.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Most probably don’t know that Simpson’s teenage years were full of (to be charitable) juvenile delinquency.
    Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In baroque prose, Coover subtly criticizes the zeitgeist, loose morals, juvenile delinquency and parental negligence.
    Yu-Yun Hsieh, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The boy was arrested on a charge of juvenile delinquency, to wit possession of a BB gun and unlawfully carrying a dangerous weapon.
    Maria Lovato, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • That leads to a series of displays of juvenile delinquency — from arson to teen drinking to armed robbery — each of which ostensibly carries its own inherent messages.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The girl faces three charges of juvenile delinquency: one count of assault and battery on a person over age 60 causing serious injury, and two counts of assault and battery on a public employee, according to police.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Violating the probation terms, such as by skipping school or getting arrested again, could lead to juvenile delinquency charges.
    Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • She was charged with three counts of juvenile delinquency/intimidation, police said.
    Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2018
  • In the 1950s, Mouly notes, congressional hearings were held on what lawmakers saw as a possible connection between juvenile delinquency and comics.
    Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2020
  • In a petition for juvenile delinquency, the teen faces eight felony counts of first-degree reckless injury, and one misdemeanor count of possessing a firearm while under 18, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
    chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • He was convicted of juvenile delinquency and testified against fellow gang members.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 May 2020
  • These children also might be prone to pathological lying and juvenile delinquency.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2021
  • All charges are listed in a juvenile delinquency petition, which differs from a criminal complaint in terms of public accessibility and the type of punishment that can be imposed.
    Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2022
  • At least one contract includes children with juvenile delinquency cases.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, azcentral, 17 Aug. 2020
  • A year later, California became the first state to drop all administrative fees in juvenile delinquency cases.
    Annie Sciacca, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • After Japan is plunged into a recession that sees dramatic rises in juvenile delinquency, a busload of students are shipped to a remote island to fight to the death, both as an example to the nation’s youth and as a form of horrifying entertainment.
    Liam Hes, Vogue, 14 July 2021
  • Judges have wide leeway to prescribe mental health care, residential treatment, hospitalization or any other remedy to help a child in both cases of juvenile delinquency and where a child is a victim of an abusive or neglectful home.
    Peter Nickeas, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Among them were children with serious medical and psychiatric diagnoses, records of juvenile delinquency and histories of running away.
    David Jackson, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The nonprofit’s website indicated it is based in South Holland and was created in 2007 to address problems of juvenile delinquency in Chicago’s poorest communities.
    Mike Nolan, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Crime and horror comics were widely criticized as promoting juvenile delinquency.
    Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 7 July 2018
  • The new officers will be tasked with following individual cases of juvenile delinquency, Mr. Shea said, in an effort to rehabilitate young people involved in crimes.
    Ben Chapman, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Getting children off to the right start pays off, reducing juvenile delinquency, addictions, school dropout rates, learning disabilities, obesity and other problems.
    kansascity, 30 June 2018
  • They're appointed by judges for people who can't afford to hire attorneys — mostly in criminal defense cases, but also for other matters like juvenile delinquencies and child protection cases.
    Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2018

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