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“We are arresting juveniles at the highest level than we have ever seen before,” NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri told The Post. “We are seeing juveniles commit five ...
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The three female students, in juvenile custody since the Jan. 17 assault, have been remanded to the Division of Youth Services, which is part of the Missouri Department of Social Services.
The U.S. Justice Department found on Thursday that Texas has routinely violated the civil rights of juveniles at five of its detention facilities by using excessive force, failing to protect them ...
[6] 15–20% of juveniles convicted of crimes have serious mental illnesses, and the percentages increase to 30–90% of convicted juveniles when the scope of mental illnesses considered widens. [4] Also, many people believe that a child's environment and family are greatly related to their juvenile delinquency record.
Eight juveniles are facing murder charges in the “senseless” beating death of a 17-year-old Las Vegas high school student that was caught on video, police say.
According to their most recent publication, 7 in 1000 juveniles in the US committed a serious crime in 2016. [25] A serious crime is defined by the US Department of Justice as one of the following eight offenses: murder and non-negligent homicide, rape (legacy & revised), robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny-theft ...
Along with her counterparts in Brazos and Harris counties, she supports raising the age of juvenile criminal jurisdiction in Texas so that all 17-year-olds automatically go to the juvenile system. On the national level, the issue rarely surfaces, even in a newly receptive political climate for criminal justice reform.