status offender
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
status offender (plural status offenders)
- One who commits a status offense; especially a juvenile delinquent taken into state care for uncontrollable behavior at home.
- 1978, Removing Status Offenders from Secure Facilities, United States: General Accounting Office, page 77:
- The Department concluded that if the State fully complied with the Federal requirement for deinstitutionalization of status offenders it would need substantially more group homes and child caring facilities.
- 1999, Preston Elrod, R. Scott Ryder, Juvenile Justice: A Social, Historical, and Legal Perspective, page 340:
- In reality, many children who become status offenders come from neglectful or dysfunctional homes in which the parents or responsible adult has not cultivated the appropriate adult-child relationship and fundamental respect has broken down.