Sentences with phrase «juvenile crime rates»

The collaborative and innovative efforts of JC 180 not only brought juvenile crime rates down, but also helped youth and families build bridges and assets leading to healthy development.

Sentencing juveniles to appropriate correctional programs, based in the community whenever possible, rather than only to «training schools» or other large - scale detention facilities has proved a cost - effective strategy in Massachusetts and other states; recidivism and juvenile crime rates have remained low in these states.

The group's dedication offers one antidote for the juvenile crime rates that triple, throughout the country, in the hours immediately after school.

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I truly believe that we ground each other, and every time we're together, we talk for hours on end... Dreams, hopes, troubles, political issues, spiritual lessons, juvenile justice, crime rates, and everything that we're passionate about.

The growing problem can not be attributed to declining educational attainment, or to declining incomes, or to inadequate access to contraceptives, or to higher crime and juvenile detention rates, or to teenage pregnancy, or to slavery's legacy.

Juvenile arrest rates dropped by 32 percent between 1980 and 2011, while adult crime rates plummeted sharply from their highs in the 1990s.

Community leaders came together to address high rates of juvenile crime in the county and were astonished to find that the majority of crimes by youth were committed during after - school hours.

Mr. Churak represents clients in cases ranging from juvenile offenses to violent crimes, providing consistent quality at affordable rates.

In particular, compared with their sisters, less - advantaged boys «have a higher incidence of truancy and behavioral problems throughout elementary and middle school, exhibit higher rates of behavioral and cognitive disability, perform worse on standardized tests, are less likely to graduate high school, and are more likely to commit serious crimes as juveniles.»

Proportionally more girls were arrested for certain offenses, such as running away from home (59 percent) and prostitution and commercialized vice (69 percent), but most other types of arrests are more common for boys.3 As shown in figure 1, between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, juvenile arrests for violent crime increased significantly, with male arrest rates rising 75 percent and female rates rising almost 150 percent.

Since the mid-1990s, arrest rates for violent crimes among juveniles have fallen, with male arrest rates falling below their 1980s levels and female rates declining about half as much.

Item: The arrest rate for all juvenile violent crime in the United States rose more than 300 % between 1965 and 1990.

These programs can be delivered for only a small fraction of the cost of incarcerating offenders in juvenile or adult prisons; the best programs have demonstrated the capacity to reduce crime rates.

Although the number of juvenile Violent Crime Index arrests (ie, for murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) declined in both 1995 and 1996, the rate in 1996 was still 60 % higher than the 1987 level.1

The juvenile - depressed group had a higher proportion of males and exhibited a pattern reminiscent of externalizing behavior, characterized by more perinatal problems and somewhat higher rates of comorbid conduct disorder, attention deficit - disorder, crime by parents, and temperamentally undercontrolled behavior.

Since the program began in 1990, classes from 12 schools located in neighborhoods with a higher - than - average rate of juvenile crime from the Eugene / Springfield area have participated.

In 1998, the serious violent crime offending rate for youth was 27 crimes per 1,000 adolescents ages 12 to17, totaling 616,000 such crimes involving juveniles — a drop by more than half from the 1993 high, and the lowest level since data were first collected in 1973.»

Perceived positive outcomes for the model include: decline in crime rate and level of violence; an effective community corrections program at Palm Island that has kept people from appearing before court and from possible incarceration; dramatic decrease in juvenile crime at Kowanyama; changes in social patterns; more effective government service delivery, leading to savings in time and money for government and community agencies, courts, law enforcement agencies and correctional centres.