CASE 15.2
Keith Reed, a 15-year-old white male with no prior arrests is brought in for questioning for larceny of several hundred dollars worth of computer parts from a warehouse in downtown Cincinnati. Using this information, walk Mr. Reed through the juvenile court system.
-If the decision was to leave the juvenile in the adult criminal courts; the decision of the judge to place the offender in a correctional facility would be called:

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The term "commitment" refers to the decision of a judge to place an offender, in this case a juvenile who would be tried in adult criminal courts, in a correctional facility. This term is used to denote the formal decision to incarcerate or institutionalize the individual following a conviction or plea.

CASE 15.2 Keith Reed, a 15-Year-Old White Male with No Prior Arrests