Juvenile Arrests (2007)

Juvenile Arrests (2007)
Author: Charles Puzzanchera
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1437935028
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This report serves to assess the Nation¿s progress in addressing juvenile crime. The 2007 data bring some welcome news, as the recent trend of modest increases in juvenile arrests in 2005 and 2006 has been broken. The good news is reflected not only in the 2% decline in overall juvenile arrests and the 3% decline in juvenile arrests for violent crimes from 2006 to 2007 but also in the data for most offense categories, for males and females, and for white and minority youth. However, one area that merits continued attention is disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system. For example, the arrest rate for robbery among black juveniles was more than 10 times that for white youth in 2007. Charts and tables.

Kids, Cops and Communities

Kids, Cops and Communities
Author: Marcia R. Chaiken
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1999-02
Genre: At-risk youth
ISBN: 0788176285
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This report is designed to help law enforcement administrators and officers understand and institute a strategy to help prevent violence -- community-oriented policing services carried out in collaboration with youth-serving organizations. Popular police prevention approaches such as DARE have helped prepare police officers to work hand in hand in a variety of ways with local affiliates of national youth-serving organizations. In a growing number of cities, police are working with youth groups and finding that violence involving youth is rapidly decreasing. The research involved a survey of 579 affiliates of 7 national youth-serving organizations.