Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper By Amanda Winter University of Phoenix Axia College July 21, 2016

Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper Since 2008, there has been a decrease in some areas of male juvenile crime rates. However, there has been an increase of some of the female juvenile crimes rates. Decrease During 2008, law enforcement arrested around million juveniles that were under the age of 18. When we break that down into groups, juveniles covered 16 percent of violent crime arrest and 26 percent of property crime arrest. Juveniles that were under the age of 17 also have an arrest rate for murder which was, 3.8 arrest per 100,000 juveniles ages 10 through 17, (Puzzanchera, 2015). The rate for these kinds of crimes were much higher in 2004, however in...