Sentences with phrase «juvenile delinquency before»

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Wertham testified before the U.S. government's Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency, which soon called for the cleansing of comics» content.

While alluded to in Simon's post, it is worth highlighting that the enactment of what is now Section 163 of the Code occurred in 1949 — more than five years before the much more famous 1955 hearings of the US Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency (England also enacted a «crime comics» prohibition in 1955).

Half of all children born to married parents in the United States will experience a divorce in their family before they reach 18, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

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.

For the children in their care the center responds with an approach called «trauma - informed care,» which focuses on a person's experiences before trying to correct their behavior, whether it be juvenile delinquency, poor performance in school, or out - of - control anger.