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A 9 page paper which outlines and discusses its causes. examines juvenile crime statistics and considers what can be done to curtail it in the future. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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anything but cute, and early in the twenty-first century, and has had major social, legal and judicial consequences (Carr, 1996, p. 2810). Children 14 and younger have been engaging
in criminal activities at an alarming rate, and this violence has extended beyond the home and the mean streets of the urban ghettos and destroyed the calm of what was
once considered one of the safest and secure places in America - the classroom. Since, 1998, teachers and students have been victimized by children wielding firearms in places as
diverse as Paducah, Kentucky and Bethel, Alaska (Cowley et al., 1998). Then, there was the devastation caused by the shots heard round the world at Columbine High School in
April of 1999, which represents "one of the worst episodes of school violence in U.S. history" (Coupet, 2000, p. 1303). Before examining the question of why juvenile crime is so
prevalent and what is responsible, some statistics will be considered in order to shed some light on this most complex of domestic issues. Even though the United States remains
the only Western industrialized countries to execute convicted murderers for juvenile crimes, it continues to have one of the highest percentages of youth homicides, with the highest of these rates
being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996). While other nations of the world have been plagued by increased incidences of juvenile
crime, the United States ranks first, statistically speaking, with five times more murders being committed by young people in America than in the number-two ranked country, Scotland (Carr, 1996, p.
2810). Furthermore, 1993 statistical findings issued by the Centers for Disease Control revealed that per 100,000 children, the number of homicides being committed was also five times higher than
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