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Juvenile Crime 1Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper Gail Rener, CJA/403University of Phoenix OnlineTamra Katcher WattsFebruary 16, 2009
 
Juvenile Crime 2Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper 
 This paper will be focused on juvenile crime and the juvenile crimestatistics. Juvenile crime, is different crimes committed by children under theage of 18. Their offenses include delinquent acts that is considered to becrimes if an adult were to commit them. Juveniles are children who trulyneed help before it is too late. There are different theories about what influence juveniles to commitdelinquent acts the thing that influences juvenile the most is societies. Thereason for this is because society labels people according to their upbringing,their environment and their lack of education. The main purpose of the juvenile justice system is to rehabilitate juveniles so that they can become acontributing member of society and not another career criminal. Now it is,time to get to the main point of this paper and talk about juvenile crimestatistics .
 
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We need statistics to help measure things and in this case we needstatistics to help measure juvenile crime. When measuring statistics it is veryimportant to understand exactly what statistics is all about. According to(Snyder, 2003) “the arrest statistics report the number of arrests made bylaw enforcement agencies in a particular year- not the number of individualsarrested, nor the number of crimes committed.” Back in 2001 juveniles wereinvolved in murder, aggravated assault, burglary, robbery, and they carriedweapons. The juvenile arrests rates for burglary had declined to 66% from1980-2001. The violent crime arrests rates for the black juveniles and theviolent crime rates for the white juveniles had declined a lot between 1980thru 2001. Juvenile crime has declined and it is a result of the law enforcement. The juvenile portions of violent crime had declined to 12% in 2001. The juvenileportions of murder had dropped to 5% in 2001. Also the juvenile portion of robbery has also dropped 14% in 2001, however, the juvenile portion of robbery is still up from what it was back in 1980. The juvenile statistics issometimes up and sometimes down. The juvenile arrests rate for drug abusebetween 1980 and 1993 had remained within a limited range. There are alot of reasons for that because drugs are very popular these days people andkids take drugs for a variety of reasons. Not only do people take drugs forpleasure they also use drugs as a way to get money. Therefore, drug use willnot go down anytime soon.
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