Trends in juvenile delinquency
During my presentation last week, I focused on the violent crimes that juveniles commit and how the percentages of offenses have changed over the last fifteen to twenty years. Some of my focus for this presentation dealt with violence within schools- the alarming rates of student on student violence, as well as student on faculty/staff violence. I also provided many arrest statistics for juveniles who committed violent crimes. Statistics that compared juvenile trends to adult trends and statistics comparing black and white children were also an aspect of the presentation. The final part of the project looked at what some states have done to combat juvenile violence and also how they are treating youths that are arrested for such offenses. The most important thing to understand is what crimes fall under the category of violent offenses. The are four components are 1) murders and nonnegligent manslaughter, 2) forcible rape, 3) aggravated assault, and 4) robbery. While I was doing the research for this, I found it difficult to find statistics for rape, assault, and robbery for juveniles. So much of my focus was on the homicide rates for youths. But during the last week I found some new nu
The next year that I used statistics for was 1997. This was the only area that I found statistics on all four components of violent crime. The area that had the highest juvenile arrest rate was robbery. Nearly 1/3 (30%) of all people arrested for robbery were under the age of 18. This was greatly higher than the other three. The number for forcible rape was 17% and juveniles were responsible for 14% of all homicides and aggravated assaults. All of that led to many new laws being enacted in 1996 and 1997 to go after serious and violent juvenile crimes. There are four areas that the government focused on: 1) jurisdictional authority, 2) jurisdictional disposition/sentencing authority, 3) corrections programming, and 4) confidentiality issues. Rape Rates- The arrest rate has remained steady from 1981 and 1997.
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