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Law Enforcement and Juvenile Crime
Publication year:
2001
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The characteristics and degree of juvenile crime as evidenced by arrest rates are reported. This bulletin utilizes data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. Arrest rates are supplied for homicides, violent and property crimes, drug and weapon offenses, and alcohol, curfew, and loitering law violations. Statistics are also presented by male, female, and racial demarcations. A few observations include: murders by juveniles are at their lowest level since the mid-1980s; in most offense categories, arrests of female juveniles increased during the last 20 years; adn during 1999, most arrests were made for arson.