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    Juvenile Crime Statistics The paper will focus and highlight some details of the statistics of juvenile crime statistics and juvenile crime itself. Is an aim to evaluate the reduction in national juvenile arrest, narcotics offenses, minor assaults, and the allegations regarding minor females, with the incousion of ethnic and racial classes. Additionally, data will be shown on the increase in arrest for minor females, the contrast in decrease for their male delinquent counterparts and voilent crimes and

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    Crime is such a general word, and describes a whole conundrum of activities that are seen as unlawful. The oxford dictionary defines crime as “an action of omission which constitutes an offence and is punishable by law”. There are many different types of crimes, and they are classified based on the seriousness of the crime. Minor crimes/offences, for example a traffic offence, are called misdemeanors. More serious crimes, like murder, are called felonies and are punishable by more than a year in

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    Juvenile Crimes Juvenile crime occurs when a person violates the criminal law under the age of majority (in most states it’s 18). The juvenile system is way different than the adult system. When a juvenile commits a crime there are legal consequences for their actions depending on what he/she did. Sometimes the system can put them in rehabilitation or a detention center. If the offense is minor, the juvenile could be released to the custody of a parent or legal guardian. In the United States

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    becomes, is someone who pleads guilty really a criminal, or agrees to be a criminal to reduce time? On November 2, 2017, the Augusta Chronicle posted an article about one of the many offenders of domestic violence who plead guilty. 15% of the violent crimes committed are domestic violence. 15% out of 100% isn’t a big consumption, but the amount of people that are affected by this matter makes this subject a social problem. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victim of domestic violence. On average

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    including higher crime rates, decreased access to resources, higher incidence of alcohol and drug use, mental health concerns, and decreased sense of security and safety. It does not stand as poverty, alone, that leads to

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    criminality: who is doing the crime and why? The frequency of crime, however, will never be completely reported or discovered, which is attributable to its somewhat clandestine nature. This phenomenon is underscored by criminologists and sociologists as, the ‘dark figure of crime’; only crime that has been reported can be measured. We are painted with a partial picture of reality, but not reality itself. There are two principal sources of data regarding crime measurement. Crimes recorded by police form

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    Complying with the order to release 9,600 inmates by year’s end will increase the crime rate. Since the release of one prisoner is associated with an increase of 14.86 crimes per year (Levitt 1996), compliance is projected to increase crimes by 142,656 per year. It is possible to minimize the social costs of crime despite this increase in crime rate, though. If inmates convicted of property crimes are the release’s focus, the subsequent social cost will be comparatively less than if it was otherwise

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    A broad range of crimes are committed in the United States, though the most publicized and often the most remembered are those committed against persons. While robberies or drug use may be recognized by some as major problems, it is often crimes such as assault, murder, or rape which stick in people’s minds. Crimes against persons are a category of crime that consists of offenses that usually involve causing or attempting to cause bodily harm or a threat of bodily harm (study.com). Also considered

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    government operating budgets, crime scientists and crime analysts need to consider the interrelatedness of spatial and temporal shifts in crime patterns when creating, tracking, and handling crime hot spots. Many studies indicate that crimes are clustered at the neighborhood level, but the entire neighborhood is rarely (if ever) criminogenic and only specific parts of neighborhoods contain high concentrations of crime CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Introduction The study of crime traditionally involved

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    Crime, Fear, and the Cost of Crime in Society There are two systems mentioned in the textbook that measures crime in the United States, the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). These systems provide statistics to see how new laws and programs are working. The UCR is a computer-based program used by law enforcement to report crimes into a database within the United States for statistical purposes. This system is broken down into parts, part I being violent

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