Statutory interpretation is a question of law.
This court's review of a question of law is unlimited. When the legislature revises an existing law, it is presumed that the legislature intended to change the law as it existed prior to the amendment. A juvenile proceeding has long been considered a civil proceeding of a protective nature totally divorced from any criminal implications. The whole design of the juvenile law is to avoid charging the juvenile offender with a crime. The plain language of the Juvenile Offenders Code provides that adjudications under the Code are not criminal convictions.