Juvenile Delinquency Prevention

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...available from the United States Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2,261,000 juveniles under the age of 18 were arrested for serious crimes (OJJDP, 2004). That is nearly 2.3 million youth. Of these, 92,200 were arrested for the most serious crimes, which are identified as murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault (OJJDP, 2004). Crimes related to property saw 481,600 youth arrested, 45,200 for auto theft, over 8,000 for arson, over 236,000 were arrested for assault (OJJDP, 2004). These are just some of the crimes in which youth were involved. Besides these, 125,700 youngsters were runaways in 2002 (OJJDP, 2004).
While these figures have declined since 1993, juvenile crime is still a serious problem in this country.
Numerous causes have been suggested for why one adolescent chooses to engage in delinquent and criminal behavior and another chooses not to. In 2003, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse released a report of a five-year study, which concluded "The...

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