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This 4 page paper discusses a 2003 bulletin from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, which shows a drop in crime rates among young offenders. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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number of drug offense and assaults, and what this might mean for minorities and juvenile females. It also includes recommendations for the future. Discussion The bulletin provides nothing but statistics,
which is somewhat frustrating; nowhere does anyone explain why there has been a decrease in the rate of juvenile crime. That means that any explanation is basically a guess. However,
well start with some basic numbers first. The FBI is the agency that tracks violent crime rates, and it does so by monitoring four offenses "that are consistently reported by
law enforcement agencies nationwide and are pervasive in all geographical areas of the country" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Snyder notes that not all crimes are reported and not all crimes
are violent, but these four in particular are always reported: "murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Because they are always reported and
because they occur all across the country, they are a good "benchmark" for the crime rate; together the make up the "Violent Crime Index" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). The
Violent Crime Index remained fairly stable for a number of years, but then during the period 1988-1994 it rose, focusing "national attention on the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003,
p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 through 2001 (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). The number of juvenile arrests for all these crimes combined
in 2001 was "the lowest since 1988" and the number of "juvenile aggravated assault arrests in 2001 was lower than any year since 1990" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). The murder
rate was also down; except for 2000, this rate was "lower than any year since 1984" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Forcible rate was at its lowest level since 1976 and
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