...University of phoenix | Juvenile Crime Statistics Analysis | Analyzing Juveniles | | | 5/7/2012 | | Analysis of the juvenile criminal statistics has been part of the U.S. since the later 1800’s The U.S. has had many efforts to reform the different policies that concern juveniles. The reason there has been so many different reforms is due to the rise in juvenile crimes and the crimes that have been committed by juveniles since the late 1800’s. Looking over the different factors that are involved with the many different statistics juvenile crime was on the rise through the early 2000’s which had many people concerned. Since then there have been changes which are starting to show a decline. The juvenile justice bulletin of 2008 shows a decrease of three percent in juvenile arrests than in 2007. The juvenile violent crime arrests fell two percent and continue to decline from an increase in 2005 and 2006 when it was feared the nation was on a juvenile crime wave (Puzzanchera, 2008). There were 2.11 million juveniles arrested in 2008, which was a decrease of 16% when compared to the arrests in 1999. An estimated 324,000 juveniles were arrested for larceny-theft, resulting in a 17% decrease between 1999 and 2008. At the same time there was a two percent increase in the violent crime index between 2007 and 2008. The four crimes that make up the violent crime index consist of murder, and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault...
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... Juvenile Crime Statistics CJA/374 Juvenile Crime Statistics Juvenile offenders are classified as any person between the age of seven and 18, and who have not attained their eighteenth birthday (Champion, 2010). This paper will show the issues of juvenile’s crimes and arrests that took place in 2008. The purpose is to show a trend over the years of criminal activities so that there may be a better understanding to help combat the issues that law enforcement deal with daily in the department. In 2008, law enforcement agencies in United States made an estimated 2.11 million arrests of persons younger than age 18 (Slowikowski, 2009). The arrest rate of juveniles did in fact decrease three percent from the previous year. Overall, the juvenile arrests have declined also from 2006-2008 from the highest point in 2004. How the FBI decides and assesses these trends is used or broken down into a few different categories. They are aggravated assault, robbery or larceny, rape, manslaughter, and murder. Overall the last ten years from 1988 to 208 there has been a steady decline in the six different categories, more for juveniles, than adults. For other crimes, such as vehicle theft, burglary, larceny, and arson, even though they are still below the average number of arrests, they have risen slightly since the early 1980s. Between 1990 and 1997, the juvenile arrest rate for drug abuse...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Crystal Rick Juvenile Justice June 16, 2014 Debra Nadeau Juvenile crimes are unfortunate, but they do happen in the United States. The uniform crime report or UCR is compiled by the FBI. The FBI uses information sent from local police departments. Local police departments compile information based on crimes that are committed in their area, and about the individual that was arrested. The UCR are done yearly and compared to other years. This information is used to track the changes and the recurrences in crimes that are committed. The information is used to help police departments deal with crimes that are committed by a specific group of people. Juveniles are often looked at to attempt to lower the crimes committed by juvenile offenders. Using the report can allow the police to track trends in crimes committed by juveniles. By looking at the report every year the police can see the areas that have higher crimes. They can see if there is rise in males or females committing crimes. They can find treads in the changes of crimes committed by a certain race. This report can help them to better understand what changes to make and what is effective. If the police implement a plan to lower the juvenile crime rate, and the report shows that it is consistently working it can be implemented in other areas to lower rates in other areas. According to Puzzanchera (2009) “In 2008, law enforcement agencies in the United States made an estimated...
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...criminals escape the punishment they are supposed to serve. Juvenile rights advocates argue that juveniles can learn the mistakes of their ways if given the opportunity. They believe that if they are able to rehabilitate these juveniles than they can decrease future crimes. Although this aspect of rehabilitation can be effective in fighting crime it has not been. Instead of this program decreasing future crime, it has in fact risen over the past decade. In the book “Statistics and Trends in Juvenile Justice and Forensic Psychology” it states that the number of juveniles in jail...
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...Juvenile Crime Jo Ann Macklin CJS/200 June 10, 2012 Sheila Toppin Juvenile Crime When we think of the United States judicial system, and what a good system it is. It is hard to believe at one time in our history, children were treated just as adults were. They would receive the same sentences and were placed in the same jail facilities. Now are juvenile system is not perfect, and need more improvements, but with society, and ever changing crimes, the juvenile system is always hard at work, facing the new challenges and seeking improvements. Juveniles that commit crimes are no longer considered criminals, but instead juvenile delinquents. If the child is of a certain age in some states, or the crime is a violent felony, such as rape, or murder, the child can be treated as an adult, making him or her criminal and trialed as an adult in a criminal court of law. The juvenile offender is treated different than an adult offender. The juvenile court system’s main concerns are for the safety, privacy and rehabilitation of the minor offender. The most signifying differences as stated by Attorney LaMance, Ken, “Juveniles are not prosecuted for committing crimes, but rather delinquent acts. When the delinquent acts are very serious, they may be considered crimes and the juvenile may be tried in the adult system. Juveniles don't have a right to a public trial by jury. For a juvenile charged with a crime, the trial portion of the case involves a judge hearing evidence and ruling...
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...History of Juvenile Justice System Roger King University of Mount Olive Juvenile Justice Systems and Processes CJC 310 Timothy Malfitano February 7, 2015 Abstract This paper will discuss the history of the juvenile justice system. I started this paper by looking at the history of the juvenile justice system, which showed how laws and legal measures involving juvenile offenders have an extensive history. There were no isolated courts or laws, and no services for juveniles, up till the 19th century, children who committed serious offenses were punished and restrained in prison the same way as adults. The changes in legislation rose the age at which individuals officially became adults. This change helped many juveniles escape the cruel treatment in the adult prisons. These changes were based on new understanding of the relationship between physical, mental maturity and acknowledgment. The American juvenile justice system has evolved over the past century with variation that embellished from the adult criminal justice process. The first juvenile's court was acknowledged in 1899, in Chicago, Illinois, and by1945, all states had juvenile courts. The juvenile crime rates particularly homicide rose during the 1980s and 1990s. Therefor the system faces a vast of questions about whether young offenders should be tried and sentenced in a different way than adult offenders (Lawrence & Hemmens, 2008, Chapter 1). The juvenile courts wanted to turn young felons into...
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...and more juveniles that are doing delinquent crimes. People wander what causes so many juveniles to do the crimes that they do. Is it because of family, their gender or can it not getting the attention they need. People wander if the gender between the boys and girls has anything to do with the delinquency. Girls become delinquent for a vary of different reasons than boys. A girl can become delinquent based on the biological, social, and cultural differences between the girls and boys. The hormones onset and brain development, to the child's up bringing in the home, to the way a girl is expected to act in public opposed to how the boys are. Boys are taught to take care of themselves, to be more aggressive towards their goals and to act out more angry and retributive fashion than girls do. Boys are expected to mature faster than girls and are mainly raised by parents that they are to take care of the home. Does families have anything to do with delinquency? Researchers shows that family structures plays a huge part in the characteristics of juvenile delinquencies. In a family, the parents are separated there are less supervision on the children when growing up. Only one parent is present, that parent is doing all the work to provide the household with the income that is needed to take care of the home. The parents usually doesn't know where the children are and what they are doing. The fact of low income housing, where crimes are high, have some to do with the juvenile delinquencies...
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...Running head: JUVENILE CRIME STATISTICS PAPER 1 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper CJA/374 JUVENILE CRIME STATISTICS PAPER 2 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper Introduction Juvenile crime statistics is truly misunderstood by today’s society. The general public pushes for harsher punishment when in reality juvenile crime rate has actually decreased. This paper will summarize the “Juvenile Arrests 2008”. This paper will further discuss the overall decrease in juvenile arrests, the increase in drug offenses and simple assaults, implications for juvenile females and members of ethnic and racial minorities, an increase in juvenile female arrests and a decrease in arrests for juvenile male offenders for violent crimes, as well as what assessment are used to track juvenile arrests in order to measure the amount of juvenile crime as well as its trends. The Overall Decrease in Juvenile Arrests Overall Review Data from 2008 shows that juvenile arrests for violent crime declined between 2006 and 2008. According to Puzzanchera (2009) “In 2008 there were 2.11 million juvenile arrests, which is 16% lower than the arrests in 1999” (p.3). In 2008 juvenile arrests for forcible rape was at an all time low since 1980, aggravated assault arrests were also at its lowest since 1988. However, juvenile arrests for murder were at its low in 2004, but increased from 2005 to 2007. Further, the Property Crime Index decreased by 20%, larceny-theft by 17%, murder by 5%, motor vehicle theft by 50%...
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...idea of female delinquency has been long ignored and focused solely on male counterparts as juvenile offenders when statistically, we see a rise in female offenders when the male offenders leveled off. Many criminology theories researched young males and excluded females due to assumptions which has now caused programs for prevention and intervention male based. The primitive years of criminology research was used for male juveniles and discarded females leaving a scarce amount of theories to consider for females. As we see the numbers grow, some speculate on the rise if it is due to behavioral changes or policing shifts. Obviously, we notice a need to consider girl delinquency in the justice system to fully understand and develop policies as well as theories. Without considering females in research, we may see a ripple effect; “heavily impacted women, particularly women of color, might well be visited upon their younger sisters unless a vigorous campaign of education and advocacy is not launched” (P.119)....
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...Historically, by the 18th century, children below the age of 7 were considered to be incapable of criminal intent and were presumed exempt from punishment. With a drastic rise in juvenile delinquency, by the 19th-century there was creation of the juvenile court in the U.S. which had its roots from a 16th-century European educational reform movement (Bilchik 1999). The reformers who supported these institutions aimed at protecting these juvenile offenders by separating from adult offenders. They also focused on rehabilitation by trying to help young offenders avoid a future life of crime. As a result, juveniles who break the law should be treated differently from adults due to their immature mental and physical capacities. Consequently, with...
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...This issue paper will cover the subject of “Trying Juveniles as Adults”. This has brought up a very controversial topic that people seem to be very passionate about. The rate of minors committing horrendous crimes has been on a steady rise for the past couple of decades (DOJ National Report Series Bulletin, 2011). There are many differences between the court system for Juveniles and the justice system for adults. In Juvenile courts there are no juries and no trails by jury either. In adult courts the sentencing is much harsher and the chance of getting off the hook with some counseling is very slim. If a juvenile is defined as a person under the age of 18, how can you justify trying them in a court designed for adult offenders? Some juvenile cases get transferred to adult criminal court through a process called a “waiver”—when a judge waives the protections that juvenile court provides (www.ojjdp.gov). Usually, juvenile cases that are subject to waiver involve more serious crimes, or minors who have been in trouble before (nolo.com/juveniles youth adult criminal court). Being tried as an adult gives a juvenile more constitutional protections, but it also has disadvantages such as losing the juvenile protections as well. Depending on the crime of the minor, both court systems can punish the individual, but which court can give the appropriate punishment or the “crime”, not the age of the person committing the crime? The big question now is should we the courts show more...
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...Adolescent: Psychosocial Development 1. Being a juvenile in any one’s life is part of the stage of development. The behavior patterns of juveniles are influenced in part by what goes on in the environment in which they live. Family members, friends, and peers all influence for the juvenile. It is sometimes accompanied by a desire for material things, fashion, peer pressure, cash and more. Social changes can intensified those needs and create anxiety for adolescents and thus they commit delinquent acts. In 2010, there were 1,642,600 adolescence arrests for all crimes that took up to 12.5% of all age offenses in the United States and courts with juvenile jurisdiction disposed more than 1.3 million delinquency cases (http://www.ojjdp.gov). In detail, Juveniles were involved in 1 in 10 arrests for murder in 2010, about 1 in 4 arrests for robbery, burglary, larceny-theft, and disorderly conduct, and about 1 in 5 arrests for larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft according to The Office of Juvenile and Delinquency Prevention. As stated in the most recent available data from FBI Arrest Statistics, the juvenile arrests percentage had dropped 43% from reaching its peak in 1996 as a result of the prevention influence, when consolidated with intervention and strengthened juvenile justice systems. There are many effective Delinquency Prevention Programs such as Adolescent Diversion Project (Michigan State University), Adolescent Transitions Program or Families And Schools Together (FAST)...
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...The juvenile court system Kathy Short 05/29/12 CJS/200 Jeni Clark Axia University of Phoenix The juvenile court system In a world that seems out of control, we examine how the youth of today have an increasing amount of criminal activity. We can see how the sweet innocent looking child turns into a person who commits criminal acts. The act of violence against others, breaking and entering, stealing, and drug charges, all can be convicted by a court of law. Over the last few years, we are now seeing an increase for crime that has juvenile involvement, by juvenile we mean a crime committed by someone under the age of 18 years old. These are crimes such as violent crime, property crime, and vandalism (Schmalleger pg.542) is on the rise. With most juvenile they will commit a crime thinking that they will not be caught, or that the court system will let them go. In a world where most children are left unattended due to both parents working, or having parents who also have past criminal histories, we see their child finding ways to entertain itself. In a court of law, the court system is different between the adult and the child. With the Juvenile Justice System, the court is geared more to protecting the youth. This can be done by protecting the juvenile identity, and protecting them from harmful activity that may be happening inside the home the court can provide the necessary treatment and support that a young child needs. The focus of the court is...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Kimberlee K. Curley CJA/374 January 9, 2012 Joseph Maffia Juvenile Crime Statistics The following paper will include a discussion on juvenile crime statistics; the areas to examine will include the following points. The overall decrease in juvenile arrests, increase in drug offenses and simple assault, female, ethnic, and racial arrests, the increase in arrests for females and the decrease in arrests for males for violent crimes, and an assessment of tracking methods in measuring trends in juvenile crimes. Between the years 1999 and 2008, the crime rate concerning juveniles first saw a significant rise in juvenile arrests in the years 2005 and 2006. In the later two years there was approximately a 3% decrease in arrests concerning juvenile crimes (Puzzanchera, 2009). Property crimes saw a large increase whereas violent crimes were proportionately smaller in percentage; arson and vandalism are at the top of the list. The number of arrests made was larger than the number of cases cleared by arrests, this may be because juveniles are easier to apprehend than adult offenders (Puzzanchera, 2009). Arrests for simple assaults increased substantially from 1980 to 1997, a rate increase of 156%. While there has been a slight decline in the last two years the rate for arrests of simple assaults is still substantially higher than it was beginning in 1980 (Puzzanchera, 2009). Drug offense arrests have mirrored closely that of simple assaults, the main...
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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 evidenced across most offense categories for both male and female and white and minority youth, in effect reversing the modest increases in juvenile arrests reported for 2005 and 2006. Nonetheless, although such trends are encouraging, they should not provide a pretext for a misplaced sense of complacency.” On the other hand, there is one section that should be or at least looked into further, is the research on why minority youths are more susceptible of becoming processed into the juvenile justice system. In 2008, minorities were ten times higher to be in the juvenile justice system than white youths (Puzzanchera, December 2009). The rise in drug offenses and simple assaults according to the juvenile arrest records in 2008. Drug offenses from 1999 to 2008 declined in juveniles and increased in adults. Here are the results from the statistics, (Puzzanchera, December 2009). Percent Change in Arrests in drug offences from 1999–2008 Juvenile – Adult ...
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