What is the name for the status offense when a child is in open rebellion?

• A. Incorrigibility
• B. Truancy
• C. Running away
• D. Curfew violation

Answer: (A)

Open rebellion by a child is described as incorrigibility. In juvenile law, a status offense is illegal specifically because the person is a minor, not because the conduct would be illegal for an adult. Incorrigibility captures habitual disobedience and defiance toward authority, which is exactly what “open rebellion” conveys.

Truancy refers to not attending school, running away means leaving home, and curfew violations involve being out after a permitted time. Those describe other age-based offenses, not the pronounced defiance denoted by incorrigibility.