juvenile
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Truancy without an explanation can trigger sanctions including fines, community service orders or juvenile supervision measures.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
The training involved participation and coaching by people who were incarcerated at Graterford prison, in Pennsylvania—many of them juvenile lifers.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
She hopes to bolster collaboration between the criminal and juvenile dependency systems, writing, “I have seen how families often navigate these systems simultaneously, yet the systems rarely communicate with one another.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
After handling general felonies and misdemeanors in the adult criminal and juvenile courts, he was assigned in 2022 to the Mental Health Division.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Amaranta laughed but she kept on thinking about him while she taught the children to read and she tried to revive her juvenile passion for Pietro Crespi.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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