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  2. United States National Sex Offenders Public Registry

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    State sex-offender registration and notification programs are designed, in general, to include information about offenders who have been convicted of a "criminal offense against a victim who is a minor" or a "sexually violent offense," as specified in the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act ("the Wetterling Act") [1] – more specifically ...

  3. Juvenile sex offenders in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There is an abundance of diversity in the motivation and backgrounds of juvenile sex offenders. The numerous characteristics of juvenile sex offenders include maladaptive personality traits, historical accounts of sexual and physical abuse and maltreatment, as well as inter- and intra-personal relationship strenuosity.

  4. Category : Juvenile offenders executed by the United States

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    Pages in category "Juvenile offenders executed by the United States" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Juvenile convicts working in the fields in a chain gang, photo taken circa 1903. The system that is currently operational in the United States was created under the 1974 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act called for a "deinstitutionalization" of juvenile delinquents. The act ...

  6. Bill would create database tracking violent juvenile offenders

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    There's a belief that the juvenile justice system operates in secret and the public isn't given an opportunity to know the sentences of convicted violent offenders nor plans to help rehabilitate them.

  7. Juvenile delinquency in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the 1980s, 25% of the murders that involved juvenile delinquents as the offenders also involved an adult offender. This percentage rose to 31% in the 1990s, and averaged at 37% between 2000 and 2008. [15] The time of day juvenile delinquents commit their crimes are the times they are not in school. [16]

  8. Advocates: Extend juvenile justice system past teen years ...

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    The measures would raise the age of young adults adjudicated through the juvenile system to 20. ... Rosario is a vocal supporter of the move to increase the age at which young offenders are ...

  9. 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.