Juvenile Crime
Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper Navigate to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service website (https://www.ncjrs.gov/) Go to the Site Search box Enter the following: Juvenile Arrests 2008. Read the “Juvenile Arrests 2008” bulletin by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Resource: National Criminal Justice Reference Service article “Juvenile Arrests 2008,”
Write a 2 page paper summarizing the key points of the “Juvenile Arrests 2008” article.
Address the following in your paper:
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 and the decrease in arrests of male juvenile offenders for violent crimes.
· An assessment of tracking juvenile arrests as a method of measuring the amount of and trends in juvenile crime.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.Ensure to use appropriate headers to show which section is bei
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Statistics indicate that juvenile arrests have declined even despite people’s’ perception that juvenile crime is on the rise. Statistics from an analysis of Snyder’s bureau of justice statistics indicate and published in the national reports series bulletin on juvenile arrests indicate that between 2008 and 2009 there was a 10percent decline in juvenile arrests for violent offences, and 9 percent decrease in the overall juvenile arrests………………………….
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