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Download full textSnyder, Howard N. – 1997
In 1996, law enforcement agencies in the United States made an estimated 2.9 million arrests of persons under the age of 18. According to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) figures, juveniles accounted for 19% of all arrests and 19% of all violent crime in 1996. The substantial growth in juvenile crime that began in the late 1980s peaked in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Juvenile Justice
