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Violent juvenile crime triples during the hours right after school, according to Phil Evans, communications director for Fight Crime: Invest in Kids.
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«The vast majority of juvenile offenders are treated as children already in New York and it doesn't need to change,» he said, adding that prison is typically treated as a last resort unless they commit violent crimes that should not be treated as juvenile.
To address the disparity in violent crimes, particularly murder, among young people, Kelly said he has promoted Lt. Kevin O'Connor, formerly head of Manhattan North's gang intelligence unit, to be the assistant commissioner for the newly - created Juvenile Justice Division of the NYPD.
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The Department of Justice reports that 29 percent of all juvenile offenses occur on school days between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and that the number of violent crimes committed doubles in the hour immediately after school is let out (U.S. Department of Justice, 1997).
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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.
Like in other parts of Native America, there are very high indices of poverty, unemployment, domestic violence, substance abuse (primarily alcohol), suicide attempts and completions, juvenile delinquency, and violent crime.
Item: The arrest rate for all juvenile violent crime in the United States rose more than 300 % between 1965 and 1990.
Moreover, 19 % of all arrests and 19 % of all violent crime arrests were accounted for by juveniles.
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
America's Children 1999 shows that youth are less likely to smoke, die and or be victimized by crime, but they have made fewer gains in areas that predict their economic futures... Among the report's most positive results is a 40 percent drop in serious violent crime involving juvenile offenders since 1993.»
Maltreated children are 53 % more likely to be arrested as a juvenile and 40 % more likely to commit a violent crime.
State - by - state and county data on juvenile arrests for violent crime are available from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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.»
The 60 - year - old club provided an enriching, stimulating environment and kept kids off the streets between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., peak hours for juvenile violent crime.