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Juvenile Crime (Crime Rates)
Title: Juvenile Crime (Crime Rates)
Category: Law & Government / Law Issues
Details: Words: 439 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Juvenile Crime (Crime Rates)
It is comforting to know that, according to recent crime statistics, crime rates are dropping among adults. However, for teens the crime rate is soaring. Between 1990 and 1994, the rate at which adults age 25 and older committed homicides declined 22%; yet the rate jumped 16% for youths between 14 and 17. This age group surpassed the 18 - 24-year-old group in the early Oe90šs as the most crime-prone. (Between 1986 and 1991, 18 - 24 showed a 62% increase in homicides; 14 - 17 showed a 124% increase in murders.) It …showed first 75 words of 439 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 439 total…Black males age 15 - 25, while only one percent of the U.S. population, constitute 14% of the victims of homicide and 19% of the perpetrators. In the 1980šs, the arrest rate for murder rose for young blacks by 145%.
Racial differences is only one factor which impacts juvenile crime. Other areas that, directly or indirectly, deal with juvenile delinquency include changes in the family structure and its functions, and in institutions and policies aimed at rehabilitating these troubled youths.
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