Juvenile Crime StatisticsJuvenile Crime StatisticsThroughout history juveniles have been treated differently than adults when dealing with criminal behavior. Society recognized that those who have not reached a full maturity level need to be treated differently than adults when dealing with crimes that have been committed.
In the last decade it would appear that the juvenile crime rate has dropped. When thinking of juveniles and writing crime reports about juveniles, the term often refers to a person under the age of eighteen. Depending on the juvenile’s age and the brutality of the crime, the juvenile case may be heard in adult court (Charles Puzzanchera, 2009). It has been said that juveniles are getting more violent and therefore a large portion of crimes involving a person under the age of eighteen could be moved to adult court and have to face trial there. As time goes on, a juvenile in adult court is becoming more common than in was ten years ago. When juveniles are moved to adult court, it can appear that the crime statistics for juveniles is going down; often times this is not the case (Charles Puzzanchera, 2009).
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On Oct. 20, 2011, a New York court convicted a 13-year-old boy of beating seven people to death with a blunt object using a taser. The attack resulted in a minimum of three injuries including the death of the victim.
Criminalizing kids as juvenile
The juvenile detention system has an extensive history of supporting kids as juveniles. Several government agencies operate in jurisdictions where the use of mandatory juvenile detention and other forms of adult supervision is legal. Some agencies have, for example, the Safe First Sentence Program of the Department of Youth Services, and some courts have a program for the custody of children who are in state or local prisons. In fact, a recent study from a Florida law firm found that many communities have had successful programs that would use juvenile detention to ensure that they have no risk of prosecution or to ensure that kids do not turn children in.
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A recent study by a team of researchers at the University of California Los Angeles found that the Children and Youth Services of California was the second-largest agency of juvenile detention, after the juvenile detention system in Texas (Lauren W. DeNiro et al., 2012).
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In a recent study by Jansen, a team of scholars reviewed statistics from the Children and Youth Services of California and compared it with the juvenile detention system in the District of Columbia, New York City, and Philadelphia (Eddie L. DeSaulnier et al., 2005; Michael J. Segal et al., 2010). As part of their analysis, authors calculated the average juvenile detention center in the District of Columbia using current court case data. The number of juvenile detention centers and the number of offenders held after their release by State of California, City of New York, and NJ. The study also included national statistical data on the number of children held under 17 years.
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A recent study that looked at the legal issues facing juveniles in juvenile detention and found that they face significant legal challenges. Among the challenges facing defendants in juvenile detention centers, all three states have significantly higher rates of conviction. These cases should be heard by courts, not local prosecutors.
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Legal challenges to adult juvenile detention
The law governing juvenile detention is complex and many questions still remain unresolved. However, at the end of the day, the system is not designed for kids to be treated like adults. It should not be a place where kids don’t get custody in the first place. Children deserve to have the opportunity to interact with their peers.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has said that the first step in complying with California’s juvenile law is having a written agreement.
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Children have rights under the law. There are many things that parents can and must agree on. And many people in California and around the country will disagree on some things or other. But some children are not given even a fair chance to meet their parents. Children need to be listened to, made available for the right to education and to have the freedom to live in freedom of speech and the right to participate in a
Juveniles often experiment with using drugs; this trend has gone on for many generations. The world of drugs is changing in many ways and some feel the war on drugs is making a difference, while others feel the younger generations have just found more creative ways to get around the drug laws. New ways to get high are showing up all the time, and that means new opportunities to make money selling these new drugs are also increasing. In some ways it may appear that drug crimes are dropping with juveniles because there is a large variety of ways juveniles are getting a high with the methods that are not yet illegal. As with any age of innovation, the law has a difficult time keeping up. In the meantime, many juveniles are in a situation where selling drugs is the only opportunity to make money in order to survive.
When reviewing juvenile crime statistics, the number of females and members of ethnic groups seems higher than any other group (Charles Puzzanchera, 2009). The number of female criminals is rising due to females becoming more bold and outspoken as a society. Females are no longer standing back while