Sentences with phrase «of juvenile crime»

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.

At its core, however, it remains a community police program designed to address the root causes of juvenile crime.

An example of this would be Ohio's Growing Up FAST: Families and Adolescents Surviving and Thriving Diversion Programme employing a logic - based model of juvenile crime prevention outcomes.

He points out that states spend far more money on incarcerating individuals than they invest in preschool and home visiting programs that have been shown to reduce the future likelihood of juvenile crime and incarceration.

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.

Responding to public dismay over a surge of youth - related crime in the state, the Colorado legislature last week convened a special session on the problem of juvenile crime and violence.

That's real money over a period of five years if we're serious in pushing it through to the public school system, dealing with issues of juvenile crime, the lack of structure, the whole panoply of social issues.

When McDonough noticed a disturbing pattern of juvenile crime and disorder around her home on South Clinton Avenue, she rallied neighbors for a public meeting with police and public officials to discuss the issue.

The SGF noted that the initiative would help parents and other stakeholders to address the growing social problems of juvenile crime and drug abuse, including codeine contained in cough syrups.

Not exact matches

Florida, on the other hand, is relaxing its mandatory prison sentences in light of the ruling, throwing out every mandatory life sentence given to inmates who committed their crimes while a juvenile.

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

It helped that Cox chose the newly martyred John F. Kennedy as the model of his new pragmatic, secular mind, for JFK had audaciously attacked old questions of civil rights, poverty, crime (quaintly called at that time «juvenile delinquency»), and welfare with a new vigor, and stirring a whole new generation to new thoughts.

The two men found guilty of killing Stephen Lawrence were given relatively lenient sentences today, after the judge admitted he had to sentence them according to their age at the time of the crime, when they were juveniles.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, has commended the new idea by the Nigeria Police Force in collaboration with the Centre for Family Peace Initiative to reduce juvenile crimes in the country.

Notably, it recommended juvenile processing for this group for all but serious crimes of violence.

The Executive Director of the Centre for Family Peace Initiative, Mr Chinedu Ikogwe, said the project would re-orientate parents, teachers and other stakeholders to address the problems of children, including the upsurge of criminal gangs, drug abuse, cult activities and juvenile crimes across the country.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Margaret Ochalla, who led the delegation, said the Nigeria Police Force was collaborating with the Centre for Family Peace Initiative to educate the young ones on juvenile crime prevention.

All five of the men, juveniles at the time they were tried and sentenced, were exonerated when DNA evidence proved another man had committed the crime by himself.

The Democrat and Chronicle says Cuomo's plan to pardon people convicted of nonviolent crimes while they were 16 or 17 years old and have stayed out of legal trouble for a decade «is a good step for New York and a potential new start for former juvenile offenders.»

Administration for Children's Services Commissioner David Hansell said Gov. Cuomo proposed «some drastic cuts» in his new budget to ACS child welfare programs and assistance the agency offers to juveniles accused of crimes.

States including Connecticut and Illinois, which had already raised their age of criminal responsibility to 18 in previous years and saw drops in juvenile crime, are now considering raising the age to charge one as an adult to the age of 21.

«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.

CENTRAL HARLEM — After more than a decade of unsuccessful attempts by lawmakers and juvenile justice advocates, Gov. Andrew Cuomo officially signed a bill into law Monday that would prevent all 16 - and 17 - year - olds from automatically being charged as adults in New York, no matter the crime.

Cuomo said the bill would also seal the records of juveniles if they commit no crimes over a 10 - year period and retroactively seal records of the formerly incarcerated going back 10 years who have maintained a clean criminal record over that time, affecting 12,000 New Yorkers, he said, citing other provisions.

However, we need to send out a clear message about the seriousness of juvenile knife crime.»

Another major non-spending issue connected to the budget is to treat 16 - and 17 - year - olds accused of crimes to be treated as juveniles, not adults, in the state's court and prison systems.

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.

Graduating PGCC students go on to pursue a variety of occupations, including wildlife science (Endangered Species Act), toxicology, medical insurance fraud, forensic nursing, juvenile delinquency, police crime laboratory, engineering, law, FEMA, ATF, FBI, DEA, fire departments, forensic education, physical anthropology, forensic herpetology, and forensic accounting.

«We should continue to devote resources to juvenile justice because two - thirds of the criminal population first commit crimes in adolescence.»

But what about juveniles suspected of petty crimes?

In the 2015 survey, the majority of gun owners surveyed support prohibiting a person convicted of a serious crime as a juvenile from having a gun for 10 years (73 percent), prohibiting people who have been convicted of public display of gun in a threatening manner excluding self - defense from having a gun for 10 years (75 percent), and prohibiting people convicted of domestic violence from having a gun for 10 years (76 percent).

When making a decision as to whether a minor should be tried as an adult or a juvenile, the seriousness and nature of the crime should be the overwhelming consideration.

[T] he existing drug policies have failed in their intended goals of addressing the problems of crime, drug abuse, addiction, juvenile drug use, stopping the flow of illegal drugs into this country and the internal sale and use of illegal drugs.

Eight years later, another child goes missing in the same town just days after Ronnie and Alice (Dakota Fanning and newcomer Danielle Macdonald), the two girls convicted of the former crime, were released from juvenile detention.

Cast: Pernilla August, Sofia Karemyr, Simon J. Berger Program: Discovery Headline: Swede and lowdown Noel's Take: The Swedish true - crime drama Call Girl follows a juvenile delinquent in Stockholm in 1976, as she falls into a circle of bad girls who introduce to her a notorious madam.

Despite his reluctance, French magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) is transferred from the juvenile to the organized crime division in the middle of mob wars in Marseilles, France.

This fantasy setting also helps to dispel some of the darker realities of the juveniles» acts of crime, which include lying, robbing, hostage taking, and breaking and entering.

This three - disc set boxes up Shoot First, Die Later (1974), a ruthless crime drama starring Luc Merenda as a corrupt cop on a mission of righteous vengeance (previously released as a stand - alone disc), with two disc debuts: Naked Violence (1969), a juvenile delinquent cop drama by way of social commentary, and Kidnap Syndicate (1975), a revenge thriller with Merenda, this time playing an innocent bystander roused to take justice into his own hands.

Crime in the Streets (1956) is less film noir than stagey social drama, but it's the film debut of John Cassavetes in a twitchy bit of juvenile delinquency on the road to murder.

Offering data concerning black poverty, unemployment, crime, juvenile delinquency, narcotics use, and serious educational disadvantage, Moynihan maintained that the deep roots of this «crisis» lay in American slavery.

An important limitation of this analysis is that I do not have access to data on juvenile crime.

There's a direct line from truancy to juvenile crime, gang membership, and drug use, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

But beyond offering a safe haven, research and evaluation studies have demonstrated that the programs can have a positive effect on a range of prevention outcomes, such as avoidance of drug and alcohol use, decreases in delinquency and violent behavior, increased knowledge of safe sex, avoidance of sexual activity, and reduction in juvenile crime.

Such trauma is consistently linked to a broad variety of negative life circumstances including poverty, juvenile delinquency, adult crime, low academic achievement, substance abuse, mental disorders and poor health.

So, the decrease in disruptive behavior in the classroom is probably due to the overall decrease in juvenile crimes across the nation and not because of zero tolerance policies, the article says.

Police statistics offer one answer: Juvenile crime peaks between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Education department data offer another: 31 percent of high - school seniors watched three or more hours of television every weekday in 2004, the last time the department ran the numbers, up from 9 percent in 1992.

In this study, researchers analyzed the economic impact of six widely - used SEL programs and found that on average, every dollar invested yields $ 11 in long - term benefits, ranging from reduced juvenile crime, higher lifetime earnings, and better mental and physical health.

This lesson plan is for teachers of older teens and adults who want to have a discussion lesson about crime, youth crime, juvenile delinquency and...

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).