PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Juvenile: a young person.
Delinquent: typically of a young person or that person's behavior) showing or characterized by a tendency to commit crime, particularly minor crime.
"delinquent children"
Reform: make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.
Prosecute institute legal proceedings against (a person or organization).
Offender: a person who commits an illegal act.
Conviction: a formal declaration that someone is guilty of a criminal offense, made by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law.
Incarceration: the state of being confined in prison; imprisonment.
Overrepresentation: Represented in excessive or disproportionately large numbers or amounts: "Just as conflict and crisis are greatly overrepresented in dreams, the ordinary stuff of life is underplayed"
Mandatory: required by law or rules; compulsory.
Deterrent: a thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something.
Disparity: a great difference.
Sentence: the punishment assigned to a defendant found guilty by a court, or fixed by law for a particular offense.
