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As Serious Juvenile Crime Declined, Police Made More Arrests for Less Serious Offenses

Taken together, arrests for the eight serious offenses included in the FBI Crime Index decreased nearly 50 percent between 1995 and 2010. Arrests for some of the most common, less serious offenses, however, increased substantially from 1985 through 2005, and they remained at higher levels in 2010 when compared with the early 1980s. Continue reading As Serious Juvenile Crime Declined, Police Made More Arrests for Less Serious Offenses

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The National Juvenile Court Data Archive: Collecting Data Since 1927

Jeffrey A. Butts (1997). The National Juvenile Court Data Archive: Collecting Data Since 1927. (Fact Sheet #66.) Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, US Department of Justice. Juvenile and family courts across the country voluntarily provide the National Juvenile Court Data Archive with information about their delinquency and status offense cases. Continue reading The National Juvenile Court Data Archive: Collecting Data Since 1927

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