Revised Kansas Juvenile Justice Code – 2026
How Kansas prosecutes and sentences a juvenile offender, 108 sections. 38-2301 gives the citation, the goals of the code and policy development; 38-2304 the jurisdiction and the presumption of age; 38-2306 the right to an attorney. Custody and detention come first — 38-2330 on when a juvenile may be taken into custody, 38-2331 on the criteria for detention in a detention facility, 38-2332 on the prohibition against placing or detaining a juvenile in jail, and the detention hearing at 38-2343. 38-2347 is the prosecution-as-an-adult provision and the extended jurisdiction juvenile prosecution, with its burden of proof. Adjudication is at 38-2356, and sentencing is the largest part of the code: the alternatives at 38-2361, the placement matrix at 38-2369 that sets the placement by the offense committed, departure sentences at 38-2371, computation of sentence, modification, violation of a condition of probation or placement, conditional release, and notification of pending release. Appeals run from 38-2380 for the juvenile and 38-2381 for the prosecution. Also here: community-based graduated responses for technical violations (38-2392), required training for those working with adjudicated juveniles, and the risk and needs assessment for juveniles in detention at 38-23,102. This is the CURRENT code; the superseded Kansas Juvenile Justice Code in article 16 is not included.
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