If your child has been charged with a juvenile crime in California, you have legal options. Our San Jose juvenile lawyer could help.
Any parent wants to know the whereabouts and activities of their children. As children grow older, however, constant supervision becomes unrealistic, and parents can simply hope that their children are making smart choices. While only a relatively small number of children commit crimes, juvenile crimes do happen, even under the care of responsible parents. Studies … Continue reading
If your child has been accused of a crime, it can be a difficult time for everyone. Most families will be faced with tough questions regarding where the accused will be tried, and how to proceed. Most families will also be worried about the future for their child, regarding his or her future criminal record … Continue reading
California has long had one of the strictest policies against juvenile crime in the country, but this has begun to change. As recently as 2010, more than 200 of the state’s youth were locked up, serving life prison terms with no possibility of parole, for crimes that they had committed before they were 18 years old. … Continue reading
There are many slang terms to describe a young person heading down the wrong side of a long, hard road. Dependent upon your age, misguided youths may have been branded as greasers, hippies, punks, hoodlums or slackers, but what exactly describes the life of a juvenile delinquent? Joseph A. Wickliffe, course developer and instructor of … Continue reading