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Mary, a 15 year-old juvenile with no history of delinquency, has been remanded to the juvenile court because she does not listen to her parents and is believed to be sexually active.
Do you think that such an act or other legal intervention in the lives of youths is constitutionally valid? Be sure to consider whether this legal intervention would be tenable if applied to adults, and why it is considered acceptable in the case of juveniles. Justify your responses with rationales and examples.

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Such an act is constitutionally valid under the parens patriae model of juvenile justice wherein parents and the courts have the right to remand children into boarding schools, boot camp, or in cases where the child has been engaging in delinquent status offenses to juvenile detention. If the child has been placed in juvenile detention this would not be constitutional because you stated that she has no ...

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