Extractions: 2181 Rayburn HOB · (202) 225-4527 FACT SHEET Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention Act Helps States and Local Governments Reduce Juvenile Crime In 1974, Congress created an office within the Justice Department to help states and communities prevent and control juvenile delinquency and improve their juvenile justice systems the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Its the primary federal agency responsible for addressing juvenile crime and delinquency and abused, neglected, missing, and exploited children. The offices authorization lapsed on September 30, 1996; nonetheless, for FY 2001 Congress appropriated $279 million for the OJJDP and $250 million for the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants program, which emphasizes accountability-based reforms. Although juvenile crime rates have been declining since the early 1990s, theyre still alarmingly high compared to levels before 1985, when an explosion in violent juvenile crime began, peaking in 1994. Criminologists and lawmakers remain justifiably concerned over the still-high rate of juvenile crime. For instance, a report issued by the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Education Departments National Center for Educational Statistics found that in 1998, students aged 12 through 18 were victims of more than 2.7 million total crimes at school . . . and 253,000 serious violent crimes.
Extractions: 2181 Rayburn HOB · (202) 225-4527 BILL SUMMARY Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention Act Helps States and Local Governments Reduce Juvenile Crime The Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention Act (H.R. 1900), introduced by Reps. James Greenwood (R-PA) and Bobby Scott (D-VA) on May 17, will help states and local governments in their efforts to reduce the persistent problem of juvenile crime by giving them more flexibility to address their most pressing needs The House overwhelmingly passed (424-2) a similar bill as an amendment to a juvenile justice reauthorization bill on June 17, 1999. Juvenile Crime Rates are Unacceptably High: Although juvenile crime rates have been declining since the early 1990s, theyre still alarmingly high compared to levels before 1985, when an explosion in violent juvenile crime began, peaking in 1994. A report issued by the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Education Departments National Center for Educational Statistics found that in 1998, students aged 12 through 18 were victims of more than 2.7 million total crimes at school . . . and 253,000 serious violent crimes. H.R. 1900 Gives States and Local Governments New Flexibility:
Extractions: The following information is designed to provide a greater understanding of the facts and figures related to campus security operations. The information presented is designed to meet the guidelines of the Federal 1990 "Student Right-to-Know and Campus security Act." Reported Crimes Alcohol Driving Under the Influence Alcohol Intoxication Alcohol Minor in Possession Arson Assault Burglary Carrying Concealed Deadly Weapon Criminal Mischief Criminal Trespass Disorderly Conduct Domestic Violence Drug Offenses Forgery Harassment Harassing Communications Indecent Exposure Juvenile Delinquency Loitering Menacing Murder Possession of Burglary Tools Rape (forcible) Rape (non-forcible) Receiving Stolen Property Robbery Sexual Abuse Sexual Misconduct Stalking Terroristic Threatening Theft by Deception Theft from Auto Theft of Auto Theft by Unlawful Taking Ticket Scalping Traffic Accidents Traffic Citations Wanton Endangerment * During the reporting period of 2001 our agency implemented a new national reporting standard called NIBRS (National Incident Based Reporting System). NIBRS combines several crime categories that were reported separately in 1999 and 2000. During the same period our agency established a policy to document any crime reported to us whether that crime occurred on University property or not. As a result, several categories in 2001 reflect an increase in reported crime even though the actual crime may not have occurred on the University of Kentucky campus.
Extractions: Get Site Info Association of Juvenile Compact Administrators - The Interstate Compact on Juveniles provides statutory authority for regulating the transfer of juvenile probation and parole supervision across state boundaries, and also provides for the return of non-adjudicated runaway youth to their home states, and for the return of non-adjudicated allegedly delinquent youth. The Association of Juvenile Compact Administrators is the governing body of the Interstate Compact on Juveniles.
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Juvenile Crime - Online Lawyer Source a crime. Twenty states with capital punishment laws consequently established 16 as the minimum age for execution. Question also remains over placing juvenile http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/criminal_law/juvenile.html
Extractions: Select a State! Alaska Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware D.C. Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming In the justice system, juvenile crime defines any illegal act committed by a person under the age of 18. While the laws are the same for juveniles as they are for adults, the penalties are often less severe. Still, controversy surrounds the methods of punishing juvenile offenders, as juvenile crime rates and the severity of juvenile crimes continually fluctuate. According to Violent Crime Index arrest rates, the peak year for juvenile violent crime arrests was 1994. The Violent Crime Index includes the offenses of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In the years between 1980 and 1994, arrest rates for youth ages 15 to 17 increased an average of 62 percent. In the decade since 1994, the rates have dropped significantly.
Neighborhood Crime Stats Uniform crime Reporting (UCR) Code The more crimes you select, the longer http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/police/Crime_Statistics/Neighborhood_Crime_Stats/body
Extractions: West Coordinate: 100 Block Coordinates These are 100 block coordinates (e.g., 3200) of your neighborhood. If the 100 Block is North of Broadway, Append the 'N' onto the number (e.g., 3200N) If the 100 Block is South of Broadway, Append the 'S' onto the number (e.g., 3200S) If the 100 Block is East of Stone, Append the 'E' onto the number (e.g., 200E)
Juvenile Crime Trends This report cites a decline in the contribution of juveniles to the overall crime rate. The 2000 OJJDP report on juvenile arrests states http://www.ncdjjdp.org/statistics/trends.html
Extractions: The examination of crime trends can yield many insights into the extent of offending behaviors over time. However, one should exercise a degree of caution in the interpretation of such trends. The causes behind fluctuations in the rate of crime have been a subject that has attracted a great deal of scholarly discourse. It should be noted that many factors might influence these fluctuations. For example, the following types of factors can greatly impact trend data: changes in the law, demographic shifts, and economic changes, significant events (e.g. the impact of the Columbine tragedy in reporting of school crime, etc.), changes in the practice of the courts and law enforcement, availability of resources. With this in mind, we will proceed to examine some current trends in juvenile crime in North Carolina. Juvenile Crime Trends in North Carolina The chart below depicts the 10-year trend data for the number of delinquent juveniles per 1,000 juveniles between the ages of 10 to 17. The chart also includes the rate for delinquent complaints filed during each fiscal year. Since 1996, there have been slight declines in both the rate of overall delinquent complaints as well as number of delinquent juveniles.
Facts On File, Inc. established the first juvenile court in the United States; Explanations of the current procedures in the juvenile justice system; juvenile crime statistics and http://www.factsonfile.com/newfacts/FactsDetail.asp?PageValue=Books&SIDText=0816
Declining U.S. Juvenile Arrests the Flies generation, ever more prone to violence and crime. Amid such concerns, many states have pushed for tougher sentencing laws for juvenile offenders in http://www.colorlines.com/waronyouth/Pages/LAtimes1.html
Extractions: Juvenile arrests for serious and violent crimes fell nearly 11% from 1997 to 1998doubling the 5.4% decline for adults, according to the FBI's annual statistical report on crime. Robbery showed the steepest decline among serious juvenile arrests, plummeting nearly 17%, while drug violations, weapons charges and other offenses saw substantial reductions as well.
Extractions: Media release: Juvenile Participation in Crime: Part 1 - Participation Rates and Risk Factors Release date: 18 December 1998 Nearly 50 per cent of secondary school students have participated in some form of crime during the past 12 months, according to the first-ever representative sample survey of self-reported offending among Australian secondary school students. The survey asked secondary school students whether they had participated either inside or outside school , in a variety of offences ranging in seriousness from property damage (such as graffiti) through to serious offences such as break and enter or motor vehicle theft. In the previous 12 months the percentage involvement in each of the offences examined by the Bureau was assault: 29 per cent, property damage: 27 per cent, receiving or selling stolen goods: 15 per cent, shoplifting: 9 per cent, break and enter: 5 per cent and motor vehicle theft: 5 per cent. Although a clear majority of the students surveyed had committed at least one of these offences at some stage in their life, most had only ever offended a few times and many had only ever offended once or twice. The likelihood of participation in crime tended to peak in year 10 but was higher in each year for male students than for female students.
Relationship Between The Welfare State And Crime that our current social welfare system is a significant cause of juvenile crime and violence for charity should be shifted first to the states and eventually http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-wc67.html
Extractions: Subcommittee on Youth Violence June 7, 1995 Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Members of the Committee: My name is Michael Tanner and I am the director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before the committee on an issue of extreme importance to the American people. There is no doubt that juvenile crime is a serious and continuing problem in this country. There are many factors contributing to the rise in juvenile violence and crime, from the glorification of violence in the media to the failure of the "war on drugs." But, today, I would like to focus on a factor that has received far less attention the relationship between the welfare state and crime. Last year, the Maryland NAACP released a report concluding that "the ready access to a lifetime of welfare and free social service programs is a major contributory factor to the crime problems we face today."(1) Their conclusion appears to be confirmed by academic research. For example, research by Dr. June O'Neill's and Anne Hill for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showed that a 50 percent increase in the monthly value of combined AFDC and food stamp benefits led to a 117 percent increase in the crime rate among young black men.(2) Welfare contributes to crime in several ways. First, children from single-parent families are more likely to become involved in criminal activity. According to one study, children raised in single-parent families are one-third more likely to exhibit anti-social behavior.(3) Moreover, O'Neill found that, holding other variables constant, black children from single- parent households are twice as likely to commit crimes as black children from a family where the father is present. Nearly 70 percent of juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes, as do 43 percent of prison inmates.(4) Research indicates a direct correlation between crime rates and the number of single-parent families in a neighborhood.(5)
The Redwood Highway: Crime, Law And Related Links On The Web The 1997 and 1998 issues of the Federal Bureau of Investigation s crime in the United States includes special issues on juvenile crime and family violence http://www.sonoma.edu/cja/info/infop5.html
Extractions: Principles of Restorative Justice as applied to Juvenile Justice: The Leuven Declaration , also linked under the " System Critique and Reform " section on the next page. Open your mind to alternative principles for transforming the juvenile justice system that do not merely center on punishment and more punishment.
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Extractions: Home News Releases About HRW Contribute ... Contact Us Graph 1: Trends in Violent Offense Arrest Rates Table 1: Arrest Rates for Violent Offenses, 1995-2001 Statewide, the juvenile arrest rate for violent offenses fell almost 33 percent between 1995 and 2001, from 621.9 to 419.3 per 100,000. The juvenile arrest rate for violent offenses in Los Angeles county fell almost 44 percent during this period, from 772.8 per 100,000 in 1995 to 443.3 per 100,000 in 2001. (See Graph 2: Violent Offense Arrest Rates in Los Angeles County Table 1: Arrest Rates for Violent Offenses, 1995-2001 Nor is there any evidence that treating children as adults reduces crime. The District of Columbia had a larger drop in youth crime than the neighboring state of Maryland during the 1990seven though D.C. sharply curtailed its use of detention during the same period, a 2001 Building Blocks for Youth study found. Similarly, a 1997 study comparing Connecticut, which had the highest juvenile-to-adult transfer rate in the United States, with Colorado, the state with the lowest rate of such transfers, found that the youth crime rate was the same in each state. Similarly, studies of violent juvenile crime in Idaho, Florida, and New York have found that making it easier to try youth as adults does not deter violent juvenile crime.
Youth And Crime juvenile crime. OnlineJRSA works with the OJJDP to enhance juvenile justice evaluation capacity in the States through the juvenile Justice Evaluation http://cjstudents.com/youth_and_crime.htm
Extractions: Criminal Justice Resources: Juvenile Justice -Maintained by Michigan State University, this site provides multiple links to sites, research, and essays on the world wide web pertaining to issues involved with juvenile justice. Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center Online -JRSA works with the OJJDP to enhance juvenile justice evaluation capacity in the States through the Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center project. The goal of JJEC is to provide training, technical assistance and other resources to States to enhance their ability to evaluate juvenile justice programs. National Center for Juvenile Justice -The National Center for Juvenile Justice (the Center) is a private, non-profit organization providing resources for independent and original research on topics related directly and indirectly to the field of juvenile justice. National Youth Gang Center -A division of the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR), NYGC provides research and training organization specializing in law enforcement, juvenile justice, and criminal justice issues. National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center -The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center was established as a central source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications, research, and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens.
Juv Death Pen 5-1-94 through our society s near hysteria about violent juvenile crime in the 1990s, (3) into the era of the international pressure on the United States to abandon http://www.law.onu.edu/faculty/streib/juvdeath.htm
Extractions: This is the 66th issue of this periodic report, having first been launched on June 15, 1984. On that date, the death penalty for juvenile offenders was an obscure issue in law as well as in political and social arenas. These reports have been with us (1) through the intense litigation of the late 1980s, (2) through our society's near hysteria about violent juvenile crime in the 1990s, (3) into the era of the international pressure on the United States to abandon this practice, and (4) now into a revitalized movement to finally end this practice. The solitary goal of these reports is to collect in one place the best available data and information on the death penalty for juvenile offenders (defined as those under age 18 at the time of their crimes). It is left to other documents and to other organizations to argue about the pros and cons of this practice, with the hope that these data will inform those arguments and deliberations. Therefore, while a sketch of both pro and con rationales is provided, this report takes no position on the legality, wisdom, or morality of the death penalty for juvenile offenders. The author of these reports has been involved with this issue for over thirty years as a researcher and as an attorney. References to some of those involvements can be found in Appendix C to this report.
Bureau Of Justice Statistics Criminal Offenders Statistics Describes juvenile offenders processed in the Federal criminal inmates serving time for violent crimes against children of Inmates in the United States and in http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm
Extractions: About the data collections For additional information about homicide offenders, see Homicide Trends in the United States Prevalence of imprisonment in the United States As of December 31, 2001, there were an estimated 5.6 million adults who had ever served time in State or Federal prison, including 4.3 million former prisoners and 1.3 million adults in prison.
Macon Police Department, GA: Juvenile Abuse The juvenileChild Abuse Unit is a part of the Support Services Division of Investigations. WHAT KIND OF CRIMES DO WE INVESTIGATE? http://www.maconpd.com/services/juvenileAbuse.asp
Extractions: The Juvenile-Child Abuse Unit is a part of the Support Services Division of Investigations. This unit investigates cases of child abuse and runaways. This unit consist of three investigators and one lieutenant. WHAT KIND OF CRIMES DO WE INVESTIGATE?: Cruelty to Children: Willfully depriving a child of necessary sustenance and maliciously causing a child cruel of excessive physical mental pain). Interference with Child Custody: A person commits the offense of interference with custody when without lawful authority to do so the person knowingly or reckless take or entices any child or committed person away from the individual who has lawful custody of such child or committed person. Statutory Rape: Sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16 years.
Northwest Area Foundation Serious crimes include murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape small change in the number of juvenile arrests may Not all states and counties have data for http://www.indicators.nwaf.org/ShowOneRegion.asp?IndicatorID=30&FIPS=53000
