Juvenile Quotes

If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

We, traditionally, in the juvenile-justice system have been charged with keeping the public safe. There's a lot more to it than that. This department is about the business of rehabilitation, and that's what we're going to do.

The juvenile system is in the better position to rehabilitate an offender. Why subject him to a system that has nothing to do with rehabilitation, even though it's supposed to?

Certainly, losing any services that provide help for the juvenile problem in the state is not good.

She was moving the department away from the punitive aspects of the juvenile justice model to one of really helping kids and only incarcerating those who were a danger to society. But I think one of the problems she faced was a lack of enough money to make it happen.

They are not juvenile delinquents. These are children who have been taken from homes that were bad for them.

We have a juvenile alleged to have had some kind of improper contact.

He got every bit of what he deserved, ... Quite frankly, if he hadn't been a juvenile, we would have been pursuing the death penalty.

The only effective way to reduce and prevent juvenile crime is to balance tough enforcement measures with targeted, effective and intervention initiatives.

This research is important because diagnosis of juvenile bipolar disorder is controversial - impulsivity, irritability and hyperactivity commonly occur in adolescents in general. If these symptoms all present concurrently, the challenge is to determine whether they are symptoms of bipolar disorder, or are simply a normal part of teenage development.

I'm board-certified in juvenile law. The county judge sits as chairman of the juvenile board, so I can be a benefit in that regard. As a lawyer, I can better understand the contracts and legal issues that come before the Commissioners Court. There are probate matters, guardianships, and mental health commitments. Those encompass at least a day or two in court (per week).

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

A juvenile female verified that Maddox was inside the house. We obtained a search warrant. We were able to make contact with Maddox at 2:15 p.m. by using a cell phone, and at 2:27 p.m. he surrendered.

We're at the breaking point. The juvenile justice system in this state is at the breaking point. We've seen almost no new money and costs keep going up and up.

The juvenile was seen by one of the children on the bus.

The next juvenile would have been in the hallway. We are in that situation tonight as well.

This is such a pervasive problem. The Department of Juvenile Justice simply fails to adequately monitor or maintain their facilities.

The whole day and evening at juvenile hall mimics what daily life is like in a normal family, what life should be like. Every one of these kids can be successful if the expectations are clear and they know you mean what you say. They need consistency and boundaries.

We don't look at our juvenile system as a punishment system.

He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to banish fear. And he sees it at its worst, as the result of violent emotions bursting into the mind and erupting from the hands.

The fact that the USA, which was the world's main perpetrator for the execution of juvenile offenders, has now ended the practice should be a clear message to those remaining countries that execute children that this barbaric practice must stop.