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Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report
Publication year:
1999
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The most comprehensive information on juvenile crime, violence, victimization, and the juvenile justice systems is presented. Seven chapters cover: juvenile population characteristics; juvenile victims; juvenile offenders; juvenile justice structure and process; law enforcement and juvenile crime; juvenile courts and juvenile crime; and juveniles in correctional facilities. Some highlights follow. Juveniles are more likely to be the victim of a violent crime in the hour after the end of the school day than at any other hour of the day. In 1997, an average of six juveniles were murdered in the U.S. everyday. Females are more likely to be murdered in their first year of life than at any other age. The rate of serious violent crime committed by juveniles in 1997 is less than it was 20 years ago. In 1997, approximately 12% of all murders in the U.S. involved at least one juvenile offender. Between 1981 and 1997 the violent crime arrest rate for females nearly doubled. Allowing one youth to leave high school for a life of crime and drug abuse costs society $2 million.