Phoenix, Arizona Juvenile Crimes Lawyers
Teenagers have driving licenses just as adults do, but there are often different issues involved, such as noisy passengers and peer pressure that sometimes affect young drivers. Young people have jobs similar to adults' jobs, and buy clothes that look the same as adults' clothes, yet advertisers understand that teenagers are a market unto themselves. Some teenagers become parents, start businesses, and otherwise do many of the same things that adults do.
Yet there are often special concerns that apply to teenagers, such as curfews, drinking age requirements, and parental permission required for some activities.
Criminal law also crosses age boundaries, involving both teenagers and adults. Contact an attorney to discuss charges involving juvenile crimes.
Young people are often apprehended for doing some of the same things that adults do. Drug possession, shoplifting, weapons charges, DUI, sex related offenses, forgery and fraud, manslaughter, and assault may name either teenagers or adults as defendants. (Certain juvenile crimes never apply to adults, such as underage drinking.)
However, the criminal justice system works differently when juvenile crimes are at issue. As defense attorneys, we know that we will be working with families, not just individual defendants, when we defend teenagers. We embrace the challenge of helping young people. We prepare carefully to introduce them as individuals to judges who might otherwise know them only as numbers on a list of court cases.
A chief objective for our clients accused of juvenile crimes is to keep them with their families whenever possible. Our attorneys at the law offices of Alcock & Associates work to bring about reasonable resolutions to criminal charges, and to ensure that their record will be clean again once they are 18 years old.
As former prosecutors and career juvenile law criminal defense attorneys, we are experienced and knowledgeable about the most advantageous decisions a teenage defendant can make. We work well with families who share the goal of helping a young person get off to a good start in life despite early brushes with the law. Contact an experienced lawyer at the law offices of Alcock & Associates.
