Erin Potts Professor Burkhart CRI 225 LA August 24, 2011 Short Answer Questions: 1: Briefly explain all the discretionary actions which a police officer may take when encountering youths who are engaged in questionable conduct. Depending on the circumstances, police officers can use such discretionary actions as: Verbal warnings in confrontations with the public to the application of deadly force. Within the training that police officers get at the academies there are other factors to assist, like the situation at hand, as well as race, ethnicity, gender, SES, and age of the youth confronted. 2: Identify three favorable and three unfavorable implications for juveniles if their cases are heard in juvenile court instead of criminal courts? Identify two positive and two negative...