CJA 374 Week 1 Juvenile Crime Statistics

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,”

Write a 700- to 1,050-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.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.  Please include at least 2 academic sources, in addition to your weekly readings.