Author: Males, Mike
Title: Are Teenage Criminals Getting Younger and Younger? Exposing Another Urban Legend
Summary: Stories recite standard myths that teenagers are more criminal and homicidal, committing worse violence at younger ages. This report notes that the average age of a teenager arrested for murder in 2008 (18.1 years) was four months older than the average age of a teenage murder arrestee in 1960 (17.7 years), while the average teenage violent felon was two months older in 2008 than in 1960. Further, teenage offenders are arrested for less violent offenses today than in the past. In 1960, half of all teenage violence offenders were arrested for misdemeanors such as simple assault; in 2008, more than three-fourths.
Details: San Francisco, CA: Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, 2010. 11p.
Source: Research Brief: Available at: http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/Are_Tenaage_Criminals_Getting_Younger_and_Younger.pdf
Year: 2010
Country: United States
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Shelf Number: 118376
Keywords:
Juvenile DelinquentsViolent Crime, Juveniles |
