Juvenile Justice Statistics CJA/374 December 4, 2014 Malcolm King “Every year the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program reports the combined data of arrests made during the previous year. The Federal Bureau of Investigation uses the information to compile a report on Juvenile Crime Statistics for a given year (Snyder 2001). This paper will 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; the increase in arrests of juvenile females; the decrease in violent crimes; and the assessment of tracking juvenile arrests as a method of measuring the amount of and trends in juvenile
The judge can place multiple “sentences” on a single offense. The juvenile maybe placed in a juvenile correctional facility if the juvenile has had a long history of offenses. For example: A juvenile has a long history of drug abuse and commits breaking an entry with theft to feed his/her adduction. This juvenile maybe placed in a facility for closer supervision and
Juveniles and Drug Court Juvenile drug courts were developed to reduce juvenile substance abuse, reduce juvenile delinquency associated with drug abuse, and deter future adult crime. Juvenile drug courts are an effective alternative to other initiatives in decreasing juvenile recidivism. Records show that juveniles graduating from drug court reduced adult felonies, but not misdemeanors. There has been much research to explore the effectiveness of such programs. Studies have shown that juveniles who complete drug court programs are less likely to repeat drug-related offenses, versus juveniles who do not complete the programs.
According to Baer, from 1997 to 2010, the rate of youth incarceration dropped 37 percent (July 23, 2010). The United States leads the industrialized world in detaining juveniles, and said that the majority of incarcerated juvenile's are held for nonviolent offenses such as truancy and low-level property crime (Maryland Transfer
Justin Elder Mrs. Armour CRJU/PLCS 401 Tuesday, October 29th Thematic Questions: 1.) What is the effect of having too many teenagers in the age group thirteen through seventeen have on our justice system? 2.) What kind of effects do race, gender, big cities and poverty have on our Juvenile Justice System? 3.)
It will also discuss how focusing on rehabilitation instead of punishment will affect different aspects of society and the criminal justice system. The juvenile justice system has had its ups and downs. In some years it was thought that having harsher punishment for the juveniles was the ideal answer. During the Clinton administration, crime rates rose for juveniles and congressional leaders demanded tougher treatment for juvenile felons, including more incarceration in both adult and youth correctional facilities (Krisberg, 2008). Although President Clinton passed bills to push for harsher punishment for juveniles before it could go into effect, the juvenile crime rates dropped.
Isabel Kelley CRJ Juvenile Offenders Juveniles committing unlawful acts fall into one of the following categories, depending mostly on the nature of the conduct involved: Delinquents, Petty offenders, Juvenile traffic offenders, Juveniles certified to adult court, Extended jurisdiction juveniles and Juveniles age 16 and older accused of first-degree murder. Delinquents is a individuals under the age of 18 who commit acts which would be unlawful if committed by an adult, except for certain designated offenses and all petty offenses. An individual subject to a delinquency hearing is entitled to effective assistance of counsel. Cases involving children under the age of ten who are alleged to have committed an act that would be a crime if committed by an adult are handled as civil CHIPS (children in need of protection or services) hearings. Petty offenders are children who engage in conduct which is unlawful for them but not unlawful for adults, such as violating curfew, drinking, and smoking.
Educating communities and children about the dangers of substance abuse and violence, the behavior will decline. Government intervention has the following goals in mind: • Reducing crime; • Lower substance abuse; • Improve educational outcomes, such as test scores and graduation rates; • Decrease teen pregnancy; • Reduce suicide rates among youth; • Reduce child abuse and neglect
Over the years, supervision technology such as GPS monitors, faster drug tests and ATM-like reporting kiosks have been advanced which have aided in improving the success of monitoring the whereabouts and activities of offenders in the community (Delcour 3). Several of the states formed strategies to stand as alternatives for imprisonment and that will give taxpayers a better return on their public safety dollars. Delcour argues the area involving alternative punishment and ways of decreasing the population, while increasing education for
Serious violent juveniles should be removed from their homes and institutionalized. This is a get tough strategy that may acquire the attention of the juveniles and cause them to want to make a change in their lives. There are proposals being made about serious violent juveniles and the best solution on how to deal with them. Youth detention centers are being used across the United States to house juveniles who are serious violent juveniles and need extra attention. Youth detention centers are facilities that punish juveniles but they also offer them rehabilitative programs while housed in the facility.