Sentences with phrase «serious juvenile crime»

PMT has also been found effective with adolescents — even those with serious juvenile crime records.

Not exact matches

Our nation faces serious challenges such as child abuse, anti-social behavior and juvenile crime.

If its a more serious crime, they maybe arrested and take in to court in custody and there will be a proceeding where judge will decide if they can be released because unlike in adult court juveniles are not entitled to bail they can be kept in custody while the case proceeds.

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

Young said she agrees «that juveniles who commit serious crimes should be in separate secure facilities and not adult prisons, and that troubled youth should have counseling to get them on the straight and narrow.

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).

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.

And this is working inside a state juvenile correctional facility, where children from age twelve upwards who've been sent there by courts — they've done what would be considered a serious crime if it had been done by an adult.

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.

Their new websites target those who need criminal defense help for charges in cases of DUI, sex crimes, child pornography, federal crimes and juvenile crimes and other serious criminal charges.

Our nation faces serious challenges such as child abuse, anti-social behavior and juvenile crime.

In particular, compared with their sisters, less - advantaged boys «have a higher incidence of truancy and behavioral problems throughout elementary and middle school, exhibit higher rates of behavioral and cognitive disability, perform worse on standardized tests, are less likely to graduate high school, and are more likely to commit serious crimes as juveniles.»

More secure youth detention centers were built as juvenile crime escalated into more serious offenses.

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.»

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.»