Juvenile Crime Statistics Crime is not an act that is limited to adults. Not all crime is considered illegal for adults but is for juveniles. Juveniles are subject to committing criminal acts whether it is due to peer pressure‚ problems in the home‚ or just simply because they want to. Juveniles are subject to committing the same types of crimes as adults along with status offenses. Status offenses are acts that are not considered illegal for adults but are for juveniles (Champion‚ 2010). In this
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Juvenile Crime Statistics Angela Coffey CJA/374 May 13‚ 2015 Professor Erica Williams Juvenile Crime Statistics The overall decrease in juvenile arrests according to Puzzanchera (December 2009)‚ “the latest data reflect such progress‚ with a 3% decline in overall juvenile arrests from 2007 to 2008 and a 2% decrease in juvenile arrests for violent offenses over the same timeframe.” In addition to Puzzanchera (December 2009)‚ “similar positive trends are
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provisions for transferring juveniles to criminal court which did not specify a minimum age. For those that did not specify a minimum age‚ the most common (16 states) was age 14. Two states‚ Kansas and Vermont‚ set the minimum age as low as 10. In many states‚ once a juvenile is tried and convicted as an adult‚ he/she must be prosecuted in criminal court for any subsequent offenses. In the United States‚ the courts see juvenile as juveniles‚ not adults‚ and they are under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
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What correlating factors contribute to rising rates of juvenile crimes? Con One of the reason is most juvenile crimes are rising in such a growing is most of the juveniles have no structure in the home. So they struggle in the homes where there are no father figure in the child life. The father never comes around so most of the young adults look for the street to be there guide in life how to become men/women. Most of the times these juveniles are looking at other people older adults is selling
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Factors of Juvenile Delinquency: A Proposed Study Research Methods Grand Canyon University December 21‚ 2011Introduction Juvenile delinquency‚ despite falling overall rates of crime in the United States‚ remains a serious problem in this country. Around 2.5 million juveniles are arrested every year for various crimes in America‚ of which around 100‚000 are violent crimes; however‚ it is estimated that this issue may be much larger than arrests show‚ because only about half of all crimes involving
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The Realities of Juvenile Crime in the United States Name Institution The Realities of Juvenile Crime in the United States Delinquency and Status Offenses Status offenses refer to actions that are only unlawful when conducted by a certain class of people. Notably‚ the term status offenses are mostly used with regard to the offenses that are committed by a minor. In addition‚ status offenses are only chargeable when a minor is involved. The restrictions are mainly put in place to increase
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Crime in the United States is a fascinating phenomenon. It has changed throughout time and history. It evolved and progressed. There are visible waves in crime rates in the American history; this is often caused by changes in the economy‚ political situation as well as unemployment rate. Crime rates can also depend on the demographics of the area being studied. These are the several variables which can alter the outcome of crime rate measurement. The crime statistics in the United States‚ as well
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and nearly 10‚000 youth is detained or incarcerated in adult jails and prisons. Some studies show that juveniles who are held in adult facilities are 38 times more likely to commit suicide and are at the risk of being sexual victimized. Do we really want that to happen in our prisons? And‚ if they are sexually victimize what makes us think that they won’t do it to others? In 2008‚ the Juvenile Department found that transferring young offenders to the adult criminal justice system does not protect
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smallest detainee at the Jefferson County juvenile detention center (Botelho et.al.). The criminal justice system has to be thorough as they handle this case. Accusations of previous disagreements between the children must be investigated (Karimi et.al.). The police should conduct interviews with other children who were participating in the playgroup at the time of the shooting‚ as well as their parents. All angles of the cause and prevention of the crime should be studied‚
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health researches‚ a huge leading cause to juvenile crimes is boredom. In Scottsburg a lot of kids are always bored‚ and a lot crimes happen because of this. According to the article “Violent video games may stop crime by keeping criminals busy playing violent video games” by Evan Dashevsky‚ a pcworld.com editor and writer‚ a way to stop some of these crimes is by building an arcade or giving the criminals violent video games‚ which would some of the stop crimes by keeping the criminals/delinquents busy
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