Juvenile Arrests 2008

Write a 700-word paper summarizing the key points of the “Juvenile Arrests 2008” article.

Address the following in your paper:

-The overall decrease in juvenile arrests.

-The increase in drug offenses and simple assaults.

-Implications for juvenile females and members of ethnic and racial minorities.

-The increase in arrests of juvenile females and the decrease in arrests of male juvenile offenders for violent crimes.

-An assessment of tracking juvenile arrests as a method of measuring the amount of and trends in juvenile crime.

Navigate to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service website (https://www.ncjrs.gov/)

Go to the Site Search box

Enter the following: Juvenile Arrests 2008. Read the “Juvenile Arrests 2008” bulletin by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Resource: National Criminal Justice Reference Service article “Juvenile Arrests 2008”.