The Soaring Juvenile Crime Rate :: juvenile delinquency crime

The Soaring Juvenile law-breaking RateIt is comforting to know that, according to recent execration statistics,crime governs are dropping among adults. However, for teens the crime rate issoaring. Between 2000 and 2004, the rate at which adults age 25 and older consignted homicides declined 22% notwithstanding the rate jumped 16% for youths between 14and 17. This age group surpassed the 18 - 24-year-old group in the early 2000sas the most crime-pr maven. (Between 1966 and 2001, 18 - 24 showed a 62% increasein homicides 14 - 17 showed a 124% increase in murders.) It is this age groupthat will be prosperous in the next decade (currently 39 million under 10).However, the American Civil Liberties Union, in a fact sheet on juvenilecrime published in mid May of this year, stated that obstinate to publicperception, the percentage of violent crimes committed by juveniles is low.According to one estimate, only 13% of violent crimes are committed by one-year-oldpeople (Gallup Poll Mont hly, Sept. 2004). The ACLU further suggests that thepublic also holds greatly grand perceptions or so the violence of todaysjuveniles, claiming only about 0.5% of young people commit violent crimes. (Crime Time Bomb, U.S. News & World Report, March 25, 2006) authorized social trends do little to contradict the dire predictions madeabout youth crime order. Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime-- single-parent households, child abuse, deteriorating inner-city schools --are getting worse. At the same time, government is doing slight (spending less)to help break the cycle of poverty and crime.Predicting a generations future crime pattern is, of course, risky.Especially when outside factors remain unforeseeable ( provide drug use be up ordown? Will gun laws be tightened?). Also, from year to year, crime rates can hover much like the stock market. What goes up for the most part comes down, andwhat goes down generally comes back up.It is probably no surprise to hear t hat crime rates among juveniles varyacross race (structural limitations/discrimination, self-fulfilling prophecy,etc.). Minorities, especially Blacks, have a high arrest rate for violent