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A 10 page paper that analyzes the causes and possible solutions for juvenile crime. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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the most troubling problems confronting our society today. While many theories have been formulated as to why juveniles commit crimes, there is no one-hundred percent accurate explanation. It
is safe to say, however, that juveniles commit crimes because of a combination of biological and environmental factors. Likewise, there is no single way to either prevent juvenile crime
or to most effectively deal with the juveniles that enter the criminal justice system. There are, however, some approaches that are more promising than others in allowing us to
at least partially rectify these problems. Never-the-less, a number of stumbling blocks remain. Between 1980 and 1998 it has been calculated that one out of two-hundred juveniles between age
twelve and seventeen had been arrested for a serious or violent crime (Lynch, 2001). This statistic in itself, of course, highlights one problem in assessing juvenile crime. The
statistics are often several years old even in recent publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A
prerequisite to effectively treating the problem of juvenile justice is understanding why juveniles commit crimes. Another prerequisite in this task is accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing
not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being committed is growing. The reasons for increased juvenile delinquency are, in fact, many. Juveniles are
committing more and more crimes and the percentage of violent crimes seems to be growing as well. One particularly evident problem when accessing juvenile justice on a national
level is that statistics are not always available to make that assessment. The statistics that do exist can be outdated, as is the case with those presented by one
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