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Assignment:

Upon reading the following case study, utilize what you have learned in the chapter titled "What works in Juvenile Justice". Based on the methods and approaches research supports, how should this situation have been handled? What negative outcomes are likely to result in the way in which it was handled?

A seventh grader in an Albuquerque middle school was clowning in a class by making loud burps. His teacher reported this 13-year-old to a school-based police officer who searched the boy for drug possession. A school vice principal accused this youth of selling drugs to other students. The youth was asked to remove his shoes and pants and the officer searched his underwear. No drugs were found in this search, but the matter did not end there. The boy was moved to a juvenile detention center and later suspended for the rest of the school year. The boy was charged with interfering with the education process by threatening or inciting others to obstruct the valid mission or functions of the school. The public officials saw this relatively common benign school misbehavior as indicative of a society in moral decline. A U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the actions of the school and police officials since they "believed" that they had no other options.