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  2. Juvenile delinquency in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Juvenile delinquency in the United States refers to crimes committed by children or young people, particularly those under the age of eighteen (or seventeen in some states). [1] Juvenile delinquency has been the focus of much attention since the 1950s from academics, policymakers and lawmakers. Research is mainly focused on the causes of ...

  3. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act - Wikipedia

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    The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA) is a United States federal law providing formula grants to states that follow a series of federal protections on the care and treatment of youth in the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems.

  4. How a broken juvenile justice system is failing in NYC - AOL

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    And while the NYPD made 275 juvenile gun arrests in 2016, he said there have already been 438 this year. NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri says juveniles made up 12% of run ...

  5. Juvenile delinquency - Wikipedia

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    Juvenile delinquency, also known as juvenile offending, is the act of participating in unlawful behavior as a minor or individual younger than the statutory age of majority. [1] These acts would otherwise be considered crimes if the individuals committing them were older. [ 2 ]

  6. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    The state’s sweeping privatization of its juvenile incarceration system has produced some of the worst re-offending rates in the nation. More than 40 percent of youth offenders sent to one of Florida’s juvenile prisons wind up arrested and convicted of another crime within a year of their release, according to state data.

  7. ‘Dysfunction’: Teens’ grievances reveal safety, hygiene ...

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    The Department of Juvenile Justice operates 14 juvenile detention centers and youth development centers around the state. They hold hundreds of teenagers in an average year as they await legal ...

  8. After reports of problems in TN juvenile justice facilities ...

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    While juvenile arrests have continued to fall each decade in Tennessee, other metrics like the rate of juvenile deaths from gun violence underscore the complexity of problems that plague, largely ...

  9. United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency

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    They focused on particularly graphic "crime and horror" comic books of the day, and their potential impact on juvenile delinquency. When publisher William Gaines contended that he sold only comic books of good taste, Kefauver entered into evidence one of Gaines' comics ( Crime SuspenStories #22 [April-May 1954]), which showed a dismembered ...