...Juvenile Crime Statistics Kimberlee K. Curley CJA/374 January 9, 2012 Joseph Maffia Juvenile Crime Statistics The following paper will include a discussion on juvenile crime statistics; the areas to examine will include the following points. The overall decrease in juvenile arrests, increase in drug offenses and simple assault, female, ethnic, and racial arrests, the increase in arrests for females and the decrease in arrests for males for violent crimes, and an assessment of tracking methods in measuring trends in juvenile crimes. Between the years 1999 and 2008, the crime rate concerning juveniles first saw a significant rise in juvenile arrests in the years 2005 and 2006. In the later two years there was approximately a 3% decrease in arrests concerning juvenile crimes (Puzzanchera, 2009). Property crimes saw a large increase whereas violent crimes were proportionately smaller in percentage; arson and vandalism are at the top of the list. The number of arrests made was larger than the number of cases cleared by arrests, this may be because juveniles are easier to apprehend than adult offenders (Puzzanchera, 2009). Arrests for simple assaults increased substantially from 1980 to 1997, a rate increase of 156%. While there has been a slight decline in the last two years the rate for arrests of simple assaults is still substantially higher than it was beginning in 1980 (Puzzanchera, 2009). Drug offense arrests have mirrored closely that of simple assaults, the main...
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...Running head: JUVENILE CRIME STATISTICS PAPER 1 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper CJA/374 JUVENILE CRIME STATISTICS PAPER 2 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper Introduction Juvenile crime statistics is truly misunderstood by today’s society. The general public pushes for harsher punishment when in reality juvenile crime rate has actually decreased. This paper will summarize the “Juvenile Arrests 2008”. This paper will further 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, an increase in juvenile female arrests and a decrease in arrests for juvenile male offenders for violent crimes, as well as what assessment are used to track juvenile arrests in order to measure the amount of juvenile crime as well as its trends. The Overall Decrease in Juvenile Arrests Overall Review Data from 2008 shows that juvenile arrests for violent crime declined between 2006 and 2008. According to Puzzanchera (2009) “In 2008 there were 2.11 million juvenile arrests, which is 16% lower than the arrests in 1999” (p.3). In 2008 juvenile arrests for forcible rape was at an all time low since 1980, aggravated assault arrests were also at its lowest since 1988. However, juvenile arrests for murder were at its low in 2004, but increased from 2005 to 2007. Further, the Property Crime Index decreased by 20%, larceny-theft by 17%, murder by 5%, motor vehicle theft by 50%...
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...didn’t chose the other argument. I will give you definitions of aggravated assault, aggravated battery, simple assault and simple battery. I would not chose argument number 2 Sharon should not be charged with aggravated assault and battery, but only simple assault and battery, since no deadly weapon was used. The reason I would chose this argument is because I would say the wine bottle was not a deadly weapon. I would research and see if there were cases that were similar to this case. I would prove that the wine bottle was not broken at the time of the event and that is why it was not a deadly weapon. Here is a case of a women hitting her husband with a wine bottle. Susan Van Cook, 42, of Trails End was charged with two misdemeanors (Leslie Korngold). I would not chose argument number 1 because it would be hard to prove by reasonable doubt that she did this because she was drunk. I am thinking that if you use argument number 1 you could also say she was afraid he was going to hit her first. I think that this argument would be too hard to prove. I could be wrong and this may be easier to prove then I think. Here are the definitions of aggravated assault and aggravated battery. aggravated assault n. the crime of physically attacking another person which results in serious bodily harm and/or is made with a deadly or dangerous weapon such as a gun, knife, sword, ax or blunt instrument. Aggravated assault is usually a felony punishable by a term in state prison (1981-2005 by Gerald...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper A person under the age of 18 years old is considerate a juvenile. A child or youth who commits a crime or is beyond the control of his or her parents is considerate a juvenile delinquent. This paper will summarize the juvenile crime statistics for 2008. The decrease in juvenile arrests will be discusses. Also the increase in drug offenses and simple assaults will be summarized. In addition, the increase and decrease of female, male, and minority arrests, and their implications will be of topic. Finally, the assessment of tracking juvenile arrests as a method of measuring the amount of and trends in juvenile crime will be done. Overall Decrease in Juvenile Arrests The decrease of juvenile arrests was evident in 2008. Juvenile arrests decreased by 3% from that of 2007. Violent crimes that include murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault showed a trend of declined in 2006 and 2008. In fact the rate of violent crimes decreased from 1987 to 2008. Although juvenile arrests declined to less than 10%, property crime arrests increased. According, to the Juvenile Arrests 2008 bulletin, property crimes increased between 2006 and 2008. Drug Offenses and Simple Assaults In 2008, juvenile arrests for drug offenses was of 180, 100. At 11% the arrests differ from that of the previous years. Juvenile drug offenses have increased in the last couple of years. Simple assaults decreased in 2008 to 6% of...
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...commits a crime under the age of 18. Juveniles are being arrest for many different crimes as young as 10 years old. Juveniles are being arrested for violent crimes, for example, rape, murder and assault. The juveniles are also being arrested for property crimes, for example, theft and vandalism. It does not matter what race or gender the juvenile is, they will still be arrested for committed a crime. In 2008, police arrested around 2.11 million juveniles for crimes that were committed. Since 2007, the number of juveniles arrested went down by 3 percent. In 2009, police arrested around 1.8 million juveniles. In 2010, police arrested around 1.6 million juveniles. Since 2008 to 2010, juveniles arrest has continued to decrease. The decrease in arrest varies by the types of crimes that were committed. Public drunkenness, driving under the influences and rape arrest for juveniles has decreased more than 20 percent. Vandalism and murder arrest has decreased by less than 10 percent. Car theft arrest has decreased by 50 percent while robbery has increased by 25 percent. In 2008, 231,700 juveniles were arrested for simple assault and 180,100 juveniles were arrested for drug offenses. In 2009, 219,700 juveniles were arrested for simple assault and 170,300 juveniles were arrested for drug offenses. Assaults have increased since 2008 and drug offense has decreased by a little bit. Between 1999 and 2008 there was no change in how many juveniles were arrested for simple assault. Between...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper This paper will address and summarize four different points from the juvenile arrests bulletin from 2001. Such points included in the summary are the overall decrease in juvenile arrests, the increase in drug offenses and simple assaults, implications for juvenile females and minorities, and last an assessment of the tracking of juvenile arrests as a method of measuring the amount of and trends in juvenile crime. In 2001 the juvenile violent crime index arrest rate declined for the seventh consecutive year. The rate increased dramatically from the late 1980’s through 1994 and then began its steady downward trend. By 2001 the rate had fallen 44% from its 1994 peak reaching the lowest level since 1983. Moving on to the increase in drug offences and simple assaults, arrests of juveniles accounted for 12% of all violent crimes cleared by arrest in 2001 specially, 5% of murders, 12% of forcible rapes, 14% of robberies, and 12% of aggravated assaults. The drug offences in juvenile arrests have increased. In 2001 the estimated arrests for drug violations were 202,500 this is one of the highest numbers in the estimates for 2001. Moving on from drug offences and simple assaults to implications for juvenile females and minorities this is also an issue that seems to be growing by the year. Law enforcement agencies made 645,000 estimated arrests of females under the age of 18 in 2001, between 1992 and 2001 the arrests of juvenile females generally increased...
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...Measuring Crime Team D: Alfreda Simmons, Kelly Ashbrook, Lucas Burrington, and Kiavonni Jones CJA/204 Introduction to Criminal Justice December 8, 2014 Mary Ellen De Frias Measuring Crime The Department of Justice uses two types of programs to measure crime in the United States. The two types of programs are the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (URC) and National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Which both have valuable details about the crime problems that are going on in the world.Since both programs are used to do different things and methods, both do focus on different crimes and there aspect. The data that they produce together is used for comprehensive crime problems that are going on in the world. The UCR program is directed by the FBI and collects different data on crimes like, murders, no negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny theft motor vehicle theft, and arson. Which the law enforcers reports the crime and arrest data for other crimes categories. The data is updated on a monthly basis. The programs compare monthly reports and counts the crimes; it counts the world’s crimes as a whole. The National Crime Victimization Survey provides details and photos of the crimes and victims. It collects information on rapes, sexual assaults, person robberies, and simple assault home burglary, thefts and many other types of crimes. The NCVS collects information about the different crimes that have been...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Angela Coffey CJA/374 May 13, 2015 Professor Erica Williams Juvenile Crime Statistics The overall decrease in juvenile arrests according to Puzzanchera (December 2009), “the latest data reflect such progress, with a 3% decline in overall juvenile arrests from 2007 to 2008 and a 2% decrease in juvenile arrests for violent offenses over the same timeframe.” In addition to Puzzanchera (December 2009), “similar positive trends are evidenced across most offense categories for both male and female and white and minority youth, in effect reversing the modest increases in juvenile arrests reported for 2005 and 2006. Nonetheless, although such trends are encouraging, they should not provide a pretext for a misplaced sense of complacency.” On the other hand, there is one section that should be or at least looked into further, is the research on why minority youths are more susceptible of becoming processed into the juvenile justice system. In 2008, minorities were ten times higher to be in the juvenile justice system than white youths (Puzzanchera, December 2009). The rise in drug offenses and simple assaults according to the juvenile arrest records in 2008. Drug offenses from 1999 to 2008 declined in juveniles and increased in adults. Here are the results from the statistics, (Puzzanchera, December 2009). Percent Change in Arrests in drug offences from 1999–2008 Juvenile – Adult ...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Juvenile Crime Statistics Law enforcement agencies like to figure out statistics whether it be for adults or juveniles. Statistics give law enforcement agencies an overall view of the rates, whether rates increased or decreased and also allows law enforcement agencies to show the people what is going on. Statistics for juveniles are just as important as they are for adults. Arrest statistics is one set of statistics law enforcement agencies track. “Arrest statistics report the number of arrests that law enforcement agencies made in a given year” (Puzzanchera, 2008). Males, females, race and ethnicity are different categories arrests rates are tracked and viewed. When tracking arrest rates law enforcement agencies can also see what crime more arrests happen for. Juvenile statistics show law enforcement agencies and society how the juveniles are doing when it comes to arrests. Overall Decrease in Juvenile Arrests Juveniles are being arrested every day for multiple reasons. When juveniles are arrested society does not hear anything about it because when a juvenile is arrested or involved in any sort of situation with law enforcement it is kept confidential to protect the juvenile. Juvenile arrests statistics for a given year show whether juvenile arrests increased or decreased from previous years and the overall goal is for the rates to decrease. “In 2008, law enforcement agencies in the United States made an estimated 2.11 million arrests of...
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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Uniform Crime Reports UCR Program from the FBI collects information on crimes reported to law enforcement authorities such as murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The this data is compiled from monthly law enforcement reports made directly to the FBI or to centralized state agencies that then report to the FBI. Each report submitted to the UCR Program is examined for reasonableness, accuracy, and deviations that may indicate errors. Any variations in crime levels may indicate modified records procedures, incomplete reporting, or changes in a jurisdiction's boundaries. To identify any unusual anomalies in an agency's crime counts, monthly reports are compared with previous submissions of the agency and with those for similar agencies.This report also includes detailed data on crimes cleared, persons arrested for a wide range of crimes, law enforcement personnel, and the characteristics of homicides such as age, sex, race of victims, and circumstances surrounding the homicides. The UCR presents crime counts for the Nation as a whole, as well as for regions, states, counties, cities, towns, tribal law enforcement, and colleges and universities. National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is created by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and provides a detailed picture of crime incidents, the victims, and its trends. They improved the...
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..."Assault and Battery" Assault and battery are two separate crimes. Assault is when a person tries to injure another person. Battery is when the criminal actually injures another person. These terms are usually coupled together and used as one offense. A person can commit assault and not commit battery. Furthermore, a person cannot commit battery without assaulting the victim. The Virginia law code states that when a "simple" assault and battery occurs, the criminal will be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. But when a person intentionally picks out another person because of his "race, religious conviction, color, or national origin," the penalty will be a minimum term of six (6) months and thirty (30) days in prison. There are different types of assault. One form of assault is, "Assault with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon." When a criminal is charged with such a crime, the penalty received is a felony. A felony is defined as any sentence in which the criminal serves a minimum of a year in jail. A question that might arise is, "What is considered a 'Deadly or Dangerous Weapon'?" To this question, the response would be absolutely everything, if applied in any way that could be deadly to a person. A sock can be used as a deadly when if it is placed in a person's mouth and forces them to choke or cause other fatal wounds. Another form of assault is sexual assault. This term, again, is coupled with the term sexual battery. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, the prosecutor must...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Analysis | Analyzing Juveniles | | | 5/7/2012 | | Analysis of the juvenile criminal statistics has been part of the U.S. since the later 1800’s The U.S. has had many efforts to reform the different policies that concern juveniles. The reason there has been so many different reforms is due to the rise in juvenile crimes and the crimes that have been committed by juveniles since the late 1800’s. Looking over the different factors that are involved with the many different statistics juvenile crime was on the rise through the early 2000’s which had many people concerned. Since then there have been changes which are starting to show a decline. The juvenile justice bulletin of 2008 shows a decrease of three percent in juvenile arrests than in 2007. The juvenile violent crime arrests fell two percent and continue to decline from an increase in 2005 and 2006 when it was feared the nation was on a juvenile crime wave (Puzzanchera, 2008). There were 2.11 million juveniles arrested in 2008, which was a decrease of 16% when compared to the arrests in 1999. An estimated 324,000 juveniles were arrested for larceny-theft, resulting in a 17% decrease between 1999 and 2008. At the same time there was a two percent increase in the violent crime index between 2007 and 2008. The four crimes that make up the violent crime index consist of murder, and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. These crimes had a 10-year...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting in 2008 there was approximately 2.11 million arrests in the United States that were juveniles. The propose for this paper is to further discuss the overall decrease among juvenile arrests, increase of drug offenses, simple assaults, and the increase of female arrests, racial minorities and decrease in male arrests regarding violent crimes. It will also address any concerns or benefits to how data is collected on crimes in the U.S. that are juvenile related. In regards to the overall arrests among juveniles has dropped since 2008. The UCR reported approximately 2.11 million arrests among juveniles alone in 2008 that has dropped by three percent and by two percent for violent crimes (Puzzanchera, 2009). Violent crimes among juveniles between 1980 and 1994 had been high and then dropped by forty-nine percent in 2004. There was a twelve percent increase over two years but it decreased by five percent in 2006-2008 according to Puzzanchera (2009). However, in 1980’s and 1993 the arrests for juveniles almost doubled, and then decreased in the years of 2000 by seventy-seven percent. These arrest were murder related; and the rate which was started in 2004 dropped by six percent in 2008 and maintained at the level of seventy-four percent lower than the high peak in 1993. Aggravated assault crimes increased in the years of 1980-1994 and then decreased a great deal through 2004 by thirty-nine percent (Puzzanchera...
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... Juvenile Crime Statistics CJA/374 Juvenile Crime Statistics Juvenile offenders are classified as any person between the age of seven and 18, and who have not attained their eighteenth birthday (Champion, 2010). This paper will show the issues of juvenile’s crimes and arrests that took place in 2008. The purpose is to show a trend over the years of criminal activities so that there may be a better understanding to help combat the issues that law enforcement deal with daily in the department. In 2008, law enforcement agencies in United States made an estimated 2.11 million arrests of persons younger than age 18 (Slowikowski, 2009). The arrest rate of juveniles did in fact decrease three percent from the previous year. Overall, the juvenile arrests have declined also from 2006-2008 from the highest point in 2004. How the FBI decides and assesses these trends is used or broken down into a few different categories. They are aggravated assault, robbery or larceny, rape, manslaughter, and murder. Overall the last ten years from 1988 to 208 there has been a steady decline in the six different categories, more for juveniles, than adults. For other crimes, such as vehicle theft, burglary, larceny, and arson, even though they are still below the average number of arrests, they have risen slightly...
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...mass shooting at the elementary school in Newton, Connecticut that claimed the life’s of 20 children and six adults. These shootings have stirred up the old debate about gun control and what the second amendment is and what it means to people. Politicians, including President Obama have claimed to create new laws that will reduce the gun violence in this country. Laws that include an assault weapons ban, background checks, in an attempt to keep guns out of the hands of people who may hurt someone or themselves. The opposition has claimed that some of these laws will violate their second amendment right to bear arms and are fighting against any new gun control measures. There are good potential outcomes of gun control and outcomes that might have a negative impact on citizens. A form of gun control that was law but failed to pass again is the ban on assault rifles. The ban on assault rifles will take those types of guns out of people who might do others harm. Most of the mass shooting that happened in 2012 didn’t involve assault rifles like the AR-15 but hand-guns. Along with the ban on assault rifles there will be tougher laws that will allow faster tracking of weapons. The new background checks and the electronic data of all sales of weapons and ammunition, will allow law enforcement to prevent future shootings. A proposal that will help prevent mass shooting at school is (2013) “The president’s proposals did include a $150 million request to Congress that would allow schools...
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