Sentences with phrase «juvenile detention rates»

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.

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«We know that high rates of depression have been reported among adolescents in juvenile detention and correctional facilities (e.g., 11 % in boys and 29 % in girls),» said Dr. Rongqin Yu, lead researcher at the Forensic Psychiatry Group at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

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.

the adult Indigenous imprisonment rate had increased by 57 % between 2000 and 2013, and the rate of juvenile detention remained about 24 times that of non-Indigenous youth.

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.

rates of imprisonment at «crisis point», with an 88 % increase in rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders over the past decade — Indigenous people now 13x more likely to end up in custody, comprise one - third of all female prisoners and half of all juveniles in detention

Although overall there has been a decline in rates of detention for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous juveniles, the ratio of over-representation continues in a stable trend.

Of significant concern is the finding in the OID 2014 Report, that mental health (as indicated by rates of psychological distress)[218] and rates of imprisonment and juvenile detention [219] were getting worse over time.