Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 571 > Part VIII - General Provisions

• Administrative monitoring: means a legal status of a child adjudicated for a status offense or a law violation who is not placed on legal status, but is ordered by the court to complete a discrete, small number of conditions within a short time period, and without regular court appearances. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Adult: means a person eighteen years of age or older. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Board: means the board of family court judges. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Coordinated services: means treatment, education, care, services, and other resources provided by one or more distinct state or local agencies in a coordinated manner for a child who is involved with two or more youth-serving agencies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Court: means one of the family courts as herein established. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Interdepartmental cluster: means the regular coordination of several agencies, directed by the judiciary, to more efficiently provide services for high-need, court-involved children. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Judge: means judge of the family court. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• minor: means a person less than eighteen years of age. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• oath: includes a solemn affirmation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-21
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probation: means a legal status created by court order following adjudication in a case involving a violation of law whereby a minor is permitted to remain in the minor's home or in a community residential or nonresidential program subject to supervision by the court or an agency designated by the court and subject to return to the court for violation of probation at any time during the period of probation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Protective supervision: means a legal status created by court order in proceedings not involving violations of law but where the legal custody of the minor is subject to change, whereby the minor is permitted to remain in the minor's home or in a community residential or nonresidential program under the supervision of the court or an agency designated by the court and subject to return to the court during the period of protective supervision. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Risk and needs assessment: means a determination, based on an actuarial tool validated on Hawaii's juvenile justice system-involved population, of specific factors that predict a child's likelihood of recidivating and criminogenic factors that, when properly addressed, can reduce the likelihood of recidivating. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Statewide cluster: means the statewide juvenile justice interdepartmental cluster as established under section 571-86. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 571-2
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.