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status offender

noun

Definitions

  1. One who commits a status offense

    One who commits a status offense; especially a juvenile delinquent taken into state care for uncontrollable behavior at home.

    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA