Sentences with phrase «juvenile arrests for»

State - by - state and county data on juvenile arrests for violent crime are available from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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.

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Participating children had higher rates of high - school completion, lower rates of grade retention and special education placement, and a lower rate of juvenile arrests.32 Another example showing more intensive programming has larger impacts is the Healthy Steps evaluation showing significantly better child language outcomes when the program was initiated prenatally through 24 months.33 These studies suggest that a more intensive intervention involving the child directly may be required for larger effects to be seen.

CHICAGO — Two separate packs of robbers, including juveniles as young as 13, were arrested for a string of robberies across Chicago's North Side over the last two weeks, police announced today.

The County Executive's office sent this group to Georgetown University's Center for Juvenile Justice Reform to attend the 2014 Information Sharing Certificate Program in a continued step of implementing the County Executive's Countywide Arrest Diversion Program.

In order to develop a larger comprehensive county - wide arrest diversion program Members of the Oneida County team attended an Information sharing Certificate Program and were admitted to the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform Fellows Network following the approval of their capstone project.

Albany, NY — Youth advocates are calling for an overhaul of New York State's Juvenile Justice System Capital District Bureau Chief Dave Lucas investigates the call to action to stop the funneling of minority youth down life - paths that often lead to arrest, conviction, incarceration and, in some cases, death

Individuals who had participated in the early childhood intervention for at least one or two years had higher rates of school completion, had attained more years of education, and had lower rates of juvenile arrests, violent arrests leaving school early.

In a recent study, researchers from Penn State and Duke looked at 753 adults who had been evaluated for social competency nearly 20 years earlier while in kindergarten: Scores for sharing, cooperating and helping other children nearly always predicted whether a person graduated from high school on time, earned a college degree, had full - time employment, lived in public housing, received public assistance or had been arrested or held in juvenile detention.

A. Process for the arrest of a person charged with a criminal offense may be issued by the judge, or clerk of any circuit court, any general district court, any juvenile and domestic relations district court, or any magistrate as provided for in Chapter 3 (§ 19.2 - 26 et seq.) of this title.

This Juvenile Civil Citation Program is an alternative to arrest for youth 13 - 17 years of age who commit certain first time misdemeanor offenses.

Then about 3 weeks ago came the water, when over the course of that week I ended up getting 7 different requests for legal help that I had to forward to our legal clinic (2 drug arrests, a speeding ticket, a landlord / tenant dispute, a juvenile issue, a car contract / lemon law question, and patent / business idea inquiry).

Proceedings relating to extradition, sentencing, probation, or parole; issuance of criminal summonses, or of warrants for arrest or search, preliminary juvenile matters, direct contempt, bail hearings, small claims, and grand jury proceedings.

I've seen messages sent to e-mailed job search support networks from individuals looking for advice about a potential employer finding the records of an old failed drug test or their «sealed» juvenile arrest record!

People find it easier to acknowledge and confront historical wrongs which do not implicate them personally, rather than to take responsibility for current discrimination, such as the vastly disproportionate rates of Indigenous juvenile arrest and detention.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), females accounted for 29 percent of all juvenile arrests in 2003.

Patterns of prevalence for nonviolent delinquency, self - reported arrests, and official juvenile court delinquency records paralleled the results for violence, although the differences did not achieve statistical significance.

In 1999, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimated that there were 2.5 million arrests of juveniles.1 In1997, juvenile courts handled almost 1 800 000 delinquency cases.2 On an average day, more than 106 000 youth are in custody in juvenile facilities.3 Almost60 % of detained youth are African American or Hispanic.3 Moreover, recent changes in the laws, such as mandatory penalties for drug crimes and lowering the age that juveniles can be tried as adults, have resulted in more juveniles serving time than ever before.

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.

Juveniles up to age 21 years may be detained in the CCJTDC if they are still being prosecuted for an arrest that occurred when they were younger than 17 years.

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

In the program's first year, arrests for juvenile crime dropped by ten percent and juvenile victimization fell by 50 percent.

White youth accounted for more than half — 54 percent — of all juvenile arrests, followed by black youth at 45 percent in 2014.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.