NCJ Number
113178
Date Published
1988
Length
52 pages
Annotation
This Bulletin describes Wisconsin's Children's Code as it relates to juvenile offender dispositions and waiver of juvenile court jurisdiction.
Abstract
The Code establishes additional due-process protections for juveniles, creates a wide range of dispositional alternatives, and specifies dispositional and post-dispositional procedures. The intake, adjudication, and disposition stages of the juvenile justice process are characterized; and juvenile court jurisdiction in the areas of delinquency, status offenses, truancy, civil law, and boating and traffic violations is discussed. Informal dispositions during intake are reviewed, and the range of formal dispositions is examined. These include counseling, supervision, out-of-home placement, transfer of legal custody, restitution, special treatment, restricted driving privileges, forfeiture, work programs, supervised independent living, substance abuse treatment, and educational programs. Procedures are described for the court report and rehabilitation plan, the dispositional hearing and order, modifications of dispositions, and correctional placements. The characteristics of waiver of juvenile court jurisdiction are elucidated, and the waiver statute is discussed with respect to application, hearing, determination, transfer, appeal, and correctional placement procedures.