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Week One Assignment

Individual Assignment: Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper

Navigate to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service website ()

Go to the Site Search box

Enter the following: Juvenile Arrests 2008.

Read the "Juvenile Arrests 2008" bulletin by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Resource: National Criminal Justice Reference Service article "Juvenile Arrests 2008".

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper summarizing the key points of the "Juvenile Arrests 2008" article. Address the following in your paper:

The overall decrease in juvenile arrests.

The increase in drug offenses and simple assaults.

Implications for juvenile females and members of ethnic and racial minorities.

The increase in arrests of...