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While youth violent crime arrests fell 16.5% overall between fiscal years 2020 and 2023, according to a Juvenile Services report last year, carjackings increased by 85.4% and handgun violations ...
Youth lockups in Texas remain beset by sexual abuse, excessive use of pepper spray and other mistreatment including the prolonged isolation of children in their cells, the Justice Department said ...
Jul. 17—Bernalillo County's district attorney on Wednesday asked lawmakers to make it easier to keep violent youths behind bars, insisting current law makes it hard to hold even dangerous ...
Juvenile delinquency has been the focus of much attention since the 1950s from academics, policymakers and lawmakers. Research is mainly focused on the causes of juvenile delinquency and which strategies have successfully diminished crime rates among the youth. Though the causes are debated and controversial, much of the debate revolves around ...
Juvenile crime poster, c. 1913. Critics of the juvenile justice system, like those in the wider prison abolition movement, identify three main markers of the system for critique and reform. They hold that the juvenile justice system is unjust, ineffective, and counter-productive in terms of fulfilling the promise of the prison system, namely ...
Juvenile delinquency, also known as juvenile offending, is the act of participating in unlawful behavior as a minor or individual younger than the statutory age of majority. [ 1] These acts would otherwise be considered crimes if the individuals committing them were older. [ 2] The term delinquent usually refers to juvenile delinquency, and is ...
August 19, 2024 at 2:16 PM. MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara are clashing once again over how to handle youth crime after a ...
The first confirmed juvenile to be executed in the United States was Thomas Granger, executed for buggery involving several animals, including "a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheep, two calves, and a turkey." The execution took place on September 8, when Granger was 16 or 17 years old; prior to the execution, the animals involved in Granger's ...