When first looking at the site it tells you mission statement and explains for the most part what they do. Once you get to the statistics it is very overwhelming, the arrest rates it dates back to 1980 and has a list of not only all crimes committed but separated by black, white, Asian, male, female, an American Indian. It goes all the way up to 2015 it also counts only the ages between ten and 17. From the chart it clearly shows that delinquency arrest rates have dropped overall over the 25 years of data. They also have stopped reporting in runaways and a few others. I also did not know that Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement was administered for the first time in 1997 by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Plus that CJRP replaced the Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities. I like how they also have a whole page of accomplishments, like the year it was signed in to law, and in what years it made accomplishment. I like how they also put up the organizational charts showing chain of command and also a brief description of each title and what they do inside the organization. While looking through the OJJDP website, I found many fascinating stats about juveniles in our country and how they stack up as far as population and crime statistics go. The first statistic that caught my eye was that more than 70 million Americans—about 1 in 4—are younger than 18, the age group commonly referred to as juveniles. This age group has increased consistently since the mid-1980s and is projected to continue increasing until at least 2015. This number is huge and suggests that by 2015 the number of juveniles in America will have increased significantly over the years, meaning that more children could be at risk to commit crimes. Another thing that caught my attention from the website was the fact that many children experience serious victimization from many sources including their family (e.g., child abuse and abduction), peers (e.g., assaults), and strangers (e.g., theft and assault). Violence does not leave its young victims unscathed. These children are often put at higher risk to run away and/or self-harm as they have not developed the correct mechanisms to cope with the abuse and stresses of their lives at home. These children are often times forgotten and neglected and can sometimes be pushed towards a life of crime in order to help themselves feel accomplished or feel like they belong. One of the other things that I found to be very interesting was the fact that the age group that commits the most crimes within the juvenile range is juveniles who are aged 13-15. This stat is very concerning as it shows that most of juvenile crime is happening in the early years of teenage life which can be a huge factor in whether or not a child will become a criminal later on in life, also not as surprising was the fact that most juvenile crimes are committed by male juveniles. This really isn’t surprising since males are known to be more aggressive and more prone to making dumb decisions in their childhood. Pack123 Jeeper123
My attention was also caught to how much children experience abuse. Children are going through so much abuse as well as a wide variety of abuse. It is not just one type of abuse like verbal or physical or mental, it is coming to a point where it is a combination of them. It is heartbreaking because it should not be happening at all. To know and see that the age group committing the majority of the crimes is ages 13 to 15 is just more proof of why it is important for a parent or guardian to be more involved in these children's lives. The lack of I believe has a huge roll in juvenile crimes. I also like how the website is organized. It’s nice to have all the useful information neatly separated into different categories. Many statistics to me were eye opening. It’s crazy to see that the age group with most committed offenses are ages 13-15. This is very early in the teenage years and will only get worse as they grow if they are already getting themselves in trouble at such a young age. I also was not surprised by how males are committed the most offenses. Sunshine123 & UofM123
The site goes back to 2014 which is outdated and does not provide very accurate info because of this. It should be up to 2016 by now so we can get an idea of how much the crime rate has dropped in the past few years. Of course the number of juveniles will increase as more people are having kids. Which also means more criminals and deadbeat parents are having kids, so it can be assumed that these at risk kids are going have a higher probability of getting locked up. It is surprising that while the number of kids is increasing the number of them getting locked up is decreasing. The early teenage years are the most common to commit crimes which is due to immaturity and wanting to impress friends/standout. The OJJDP needs to focus on helping our at risk youth become non-offenders. It is a good thing to see the number of children go up the crime committed by children go down. That shows just how well our Justice System has worked to this point and that some of the work has paid off. Also I think it shows that parents are becoming more responsible and are actually caring more for their kids and keeping them in check which helps with everything. NDIrish123, Fireboy123.
While looking through the website I found what they are about. I found the statistics pretty remarkable. The arrest rates date back has far as 1980. the list not only shows crimes committed but are separated by race black, white, asian,and gender male and female. This goes all the way till 2015 and counts all the ages down the line. The chart shows that delinquency arrest rates have dropped a good amount over the 25 years of facts gathered. They also have stopped reporting runaways and other small crimes probably due to it happening so much. I was shocked that the Census of Juveniles was administered for the first time in 1997. Another eye opening fact was that CJRP replaced the Census of public and private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities. they list a page of accomplishments, for example, the year it was signed to become a law and in what years it made accomplishments and the changes. On the page they put up the organizational charts showing the chains of command and a brief description of each title that exists and what they do for the organization. While skimming through the website, I found some cool stats about juveniles in our country and how they rank in population and crime statistics. A statistic that brought to my attention was that more than 70 million Americans about 1 in 4 are younger than 18, the age group which is known to as juveniles according to the organization and juvenile justice system. This age group increased smoothly since the mid-1980s and isn't expected to slow down until at least 2015 which is a very surprising fact considering some crimes have decreased in juveniles. These staggering numbers were very surprising and hopefully they will go down in the future. The statistics of the number of juveniles in Illinois was very surprising to me. In the years of 2008 and 2014 in Illinois there was a steady number of juveniles being arrested. This number between the years 2008 and 2014 was roughly the same and it was about one-million five hundred per year in the state of Illinois. Except the year of 2011 because for some reason it said there was no data collected during this year. Another static that really surprised me was that in 2015 one in fourteen murders were committed by juveniles, also one in thirteen of aggravated assault, and one in five robberies where all committed by juveniles. Which really surprises me and I’m sure a lot more people, because no one really thinks of juveniles committing these crimes and being such a big part of these crimes. But, as of 2010 the FBI does not any longer arrests for running away. So that might affect these statics just a little bit but not much. What I also found interesting was just in Peoria County alone, in the year 2014 there were 19,691 arrests that were of juveniles. Which to me really surprised me. This is because where I live and come from not many kids actually get arrested. Some do, but most of the time when we got caught doing something bad it was just a slap on the wrists and a call to our parents. Which that is why I think it surprised me so much about how many juveniles get arrested. This is because I haven’t been around when kids actually get arrested and convicted for something that they did. But one other thing I also do notice was that thought the years of 2008-2014 the numbers of juveniles that were arrested stayed about the same. Cavsfan123 Trojan65
Since the mid-1980's up until present time juvenile arrests rates have continued to rise. This can be argued to have started in some fashion with the war on drugs beginning in the early 1980's. However, it is extremely alarming that we continue to see more and more young adults get thrown into the justice system only to be economically handicapped even further when they get out. Organizations like the OJJDP help to aid and provide information for the public and for local and state jurisdictions. With organizations such as this one we can hope to see a climax in juvenile offense rates in the next few years and possibly a gradual decline with offenses and arrests. If we think locally with the 19,691 arrests in Peoria County alone we can see that this is a series problem no just nation wide but right here in our own back yard. Both community and government support organizations are fundamental in providing support to help combat this growing problem. A year ago I was part of a government task force in charge of organizing and designing prevention plans for youth and drug use, and within my time working with many local communities I have seen first hand young men and women who have turned to criminal activities due to poor education or as a result of living in poverty. Perhaps to target and isolate these underlining issues of juvenile crime we need to isolate what conditions act as triggers and help steer children away from them at a younger age before they come into contact with criminal behavior and as a result the juvenile justice system. Ghost123, Gymlife123
Being able to identify where and what type of juveniles commit the most crimes is helpful to police departments all around the country as we try to solve the increasing problem of juvenile crime. Having these statistics handy are a great way for local departments to start trying to control the problem and helping these children find better alternatives than committing crimes and being delinquent. Helping them stay in school and staying away from bad influences will help these kids stay out of trouble. I think the site is a little out of date because the information does not count for 2016 yet. I like how you were able to find the data for local areas. plus they also do not count a few other crimes besides runaways, like forceable rape and i believe one other that they do not count. I think that that count for some some of the drop in juvenile rate overall. Jeeper123 Pack123
While Roaming around on the OJJDP (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) website I didn’t really find statistics for the state of Illinois so I looked on a different website. I researched on a website called IDJJ which is the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. The most recent fiscal year was 2016 that was on the website. I researched the Summary of FY16 Admissions to IDJJ and found some interesting numbers. These numbers are just a summary of all the youth admitted to the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) in the fiscal year of 2016. (July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016) The data is from the departments juvenile tracking system. They break the numbers down from overall totals in the state to numbers in the different counties. One of the most interesting set of numbers was the education levels of the juveniles committing these crimes. The numbers were broke down into some grade school: 86 at 7.5%, grade school graduate: 407 at 35.3%, some high school: 515 at 44.7%, high school graduate or GED: 51 at 4.4%, and missing: 93 at 8.1%. The highest numbers sit at middle and high school students. This is actually sickening. Where are the parents or guardians? The other set of numbers that caught my eye was the holding class crime. I assumed, as I am sure many others have, that most crimes committed by juveniles were misdemeanors. That is very wrong. According to the state of Illinois these numbers were recorded: murder: 2 at 0.2%, class x felony: 56 at 4.9%, class 1 felony: 251 at 21.8%, class 2 felony: 462 at 40.1%, class 3 felony: 186 at 16.1%, class 4 felony: 162 at 14.1%, and a misdemeanor: 33 at 2.9%. It was definitely shocking seeing that a misdemeanor has the lowest number other than murder. These were total numbers that were also broke down between court admissions and parole violations. I personally believe that a lot of this could be prevented if parents and or guardians were more present in these kids lives. I also think that parents and guardians need to be more involved, know what these children are doing in their lives. Who they are with, where they are going, why they are going to those places. Majority of these kids do not have an adult figure that they can positively look up to. I was able to find some interesting statistics on the OJJDP website by looking under the “Easy Access to the census of Juveniles in Residential Placement.” Under the U.S. and State profiles I was able to organize a chart by any category of my choice and in what state. This is located in the EZACJRP sub section of the website. By playing around with different category’s such as sex, race, and ethnicity I was able to find interesting data. I decided to look at two different years specifically. My first selection was Offense Profile of committed residents by sex and race/ ethnicity for Illinois 2015. The difference between male and female is huge. There were a total of offenses and out of the 1,524, 1,416 were committed by males. It seemed like the lowest offense that led to arrest was drug violations only being 39 counts. It was shocking to me to see that in the section of Public orders, weapons had 294 offenses committed by males. There were no offenses for alcohol however. Under most serious offenses done by person robbery had the most numbers. There were 159 total offenses with 156 being committed by a male. After looking through the profiles it was clear that there was a pattern with what sex was doing a majority of the crimes. I decided to look under Detailed Offenses Profile by Placement Status for Illinois in 2015. Out of the most serious offenses 759 delinquents were detained, 762 were committed, and 3 were diversion. By looking at the Offense by race/ ethnicity in Illinois for 2015, whites and Hispanics seemed to come close together in numbers of most serious offenses committed. It’s extremely fascinating to see the different statistics for our state and what are the most committed offenses. I will definitely be looking at more statistics on this website. Sunshine123 & UofM123
Yes, i feel like it is so wrong for a poor child to be getting abused any way possible. What did a child do to deserve that kind of cruelty inflicted on them. By, them getting abused it just tears down their self esteem when they get older. That child will never fully understand how to love themselves if they are ALWAYS getting abused, because they are going to grow up thinking it is right to be treated that way. I also find it heartbreaking if a child is being abused. I do not understand how abusing a harmless child makes you feel any bigger than what you are, or even nig at all. I also could not find any statistics that directly coordinated with Illinois specifically. I’ll have to take a look at that other website that you found. I was shocked at the data you managed to provide from that other site. The statistics you provided for the educational levels had me wondering the same thing as you. Where were these kids parents? Who was watching over them? More importantly, who was influencing these children to act out so much. I personally couldn’t tell you because I assume it’s different for each kid. I agree that the parents had to hold some kind of responsibility to those numbers and you’re right. Had the parents been more present in their lives, the rates would not have been so high. Not so many kids would have gotten in trouble. I feel like the information between the two websites vary by a lot. I appreciate you seeking it out because it really shows us how the data collection and information is different between the two when it comes to the different categories like grade levels, education and so on. SomethingProfound123 and WS123
I agree, they don’t have a good support system or might not have a good support system and since they don’t they go and commit these crimes because they feel like nobody might care about them or they have nothing to lose. Also, when I see the school the rates it was horrible, there should be more kids graduating and getting more them life them jail or prison. The male statics was inserting because those many males are getting arrested. They are out here on the streets selling drugs and using weapons which are getting them to commit crime. And I am pretty sure the female is just being tempted to do half of the things they do. Females are very emotional and have some many thoughts going through their heads that they can think about committing crimes. I also count believe that robbery had the most numbers. I feel like it might because it’s so easy to just break into someone house and kids want so many things so they feel the need to rob people, and if there bold enough they would just rob you for your money because that what they need or really want. I just found all these numbers to be really interesting too and would love to see if numbers go or down. -SMILE123 & BABYBLUE123
The OJJDP accounts for almost all of the juvenile crimes committed in the U.S. and how the juveniles’ court case turns out as well. It is not the most accurate because it states, “Estimates of juvenile arrests involving Hispanic youth are not available”. So therefore it does not paint the true picture of the rates of juvenile delinquency arrests. Looking at the males’ judicially waived cases it is extremely surprising that blacks and other minorities are substantially more likely to have their cases waived than whites. This is very confusing because Dr. White has said in class that blacks and other minorities are substantially more likely to get locked up in the first place. We have also always believed this to be true because this is what we were taught our whole lives. It is also very surprising that there are way more white males and females that are at risk youths. A youth in our justice system that is black or a minority is more likely to get off the hook than whites overall, which goes against everything we have ever been taught. The report was published in 2014 so I’m sure the rates overall have gone down because all juvenile delinquency rates have decreased, but I’m positive that the number of cases among races has stayed statistically the same. It is weird that white males are more likely to get probation than white females. It is good to see the annual reports of just how much funding the OJJDP is giving to governments to assist at risk youth, youth in the system, youth exiting the system, etc. In Illinois it is still not surprising that blacks have a higher commitment rate than whites. At the same time it’s not a huge deal because there are a lot more blacks than whites in Chicago. They also account for a huge percentage of the crime in Chicago especially the thousands of shootings, so therefore they are more likely to become arrested and placed in the system. The youth crime rate is dropping so if we can focus more of our time to assisting kids in Chicago before they become criminals we may have a chance at changing around our states largest crime hub and population center for the better. It is very surprising to see that blacks get off the hook more than whites but I view that as a positive change mostly. It shows that we recognize the issue with over criminalizing the African American population. What I mean by that is that we don't give the African American population the same breaks and the same thought process as we do white individuals. If their is one thing that we need to do is that we need to balance out this issue and make it as equally fair as possible and be consistent with those rates nationwide. Also we need to find a way to more effectively help our juveniles in our system not just after they commit a crime but before they even commit a crime. If we can do that not just statewide but nationwide that will help cut down our crime rate and also help improve communities and our society as a whole. If we could give these kids things to do and to stay active for example sports that would help dramatically. But the key is that we have to make it affordable and make it easy to access for all children. If we could do this especially in Chicago our major crime hub as a state, statewide our crime rate not just for juveniles will decreases but our adult crime rate will decrease also. This also is a long term answer to the problem. If we can delay the time for someone to get into our Justice System the longer we delay the time the less and less of a possibility of them getting in it now. Why can't we plan for the future and fix the future and just contain the present. It's to late to fix what we started now so let's just contain it the best as possible and plan ahead for the future and start fixing it now before it becomes to late and the crime continues. NDIrish123, Fireboy123.
When looking at the statistics on juveniles in the state of Illinois, I saw that what I thought about the juveniles were true, that most of them were in Cook County. I know that Cook County has more residents and more juveniles, which is probably why it has the highest number of delinquency in the state. Also while looking at the stats I noticed that the county where I am from had zero juvenile delinquency. I looked through and noticed that counties with lower populations sometimes even half of the county where I am from had more juvenile delinquents. After doing some calculations with the stats, I found that 16,061 juveniles in the state of Illinois over forty three percent of them are from Cook County. Eventually if we do not get this number to start decreasing then the number of juveniles might start spreading to nearby counties and then it may start to take over the whole state. Another stat that I found to be interesting is that Peoria County has the sixth highest number of juveniles in the state. Also something I calculated was that the number of juveniles in Peoria compared to Cook is only one in fourteen. Looking at all the counties that are surrounding Peoria, which is six different counties, and adding up all their juvenile number, they only add up to 208 juvenile delinquents. This number is less than almost forty percent of the number of juveniles in Peoria. Seeing that the county I live in had zero juveniles was surprising and almost seems impossible to believe. Comparing all the counties that had zero juvenile delinquents with my county and looking at overall population, I see that every county beside mine has less than 17,000 in population while mine has a population of almost 40,000. What I do not get is why not take this county and use for an example to counties this size or smaller and see if they can decrease their juvenile delinquents. If we start doing this we may be able to start teaching youths to stay out of juvie and not destroy their childhoods. Looking throw all the website for what i read there are around 75 million juveniles in The United States as of 2017.one in four Americans have the potential of being labeled as juvenile delinquents (because they are considered juveniles).More specifically, in 2009 there were 74.5 million juveniles in the US, Also in 2009, the three different classifications of age groups among children, being 0-5, 6-11 and 12-17, were roughly equal.As reported in 2009 by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 57% percent of all juveniles are White, 10% Black, 1% American Indian, 5% Asian, and 22% Hispanic. Poverty, which is also directly connected to a child's chances of becoming a juvenile delinquent, varies by numerous factors. The poverty level of a child can vary by race and living arrangement (and other factors which are not mentioned here). For instance, in 2009, Black and Hispanic children were about three times more likely than White children of being poor. Additionally, in 2010, 21% of all children were living in poverty. 13% of these poverty stricken children lived in a two parent household, 40% lived with one single parent, 43% lived with just a mother figure, 22% lived with just a father figure, and 43% of the poverty-stricken children lived with no parents at all.From reading about all this its just blows my mind on the data from back then to now juveniles delinquents has increased and its only going to get worsen But if we all come together to try to fix what we can now this all can Change we cant change the past but we can try to Prevent what happens to the future. Illini123andPIZZA123
After scrolling throughout this website and uncovering some different interesting statistics about the youth crime rate. About 82% of delinquency cases were handled by juvenile courts in 2014 that were referred by local law enforcement agencies. The case rate for property offenses saw a slight increase between 1985 and 1991, however from the 90’s up until 2014, those rates have been on the decline. The property offense case rates are the highest among the other offense rates such as public order offense cases, person offense cases, and drug offense cases. For example juvenile courts processed 10.6 property offense cases for every 1,000 youths under juvenile court jurisdiction compared that with just 7.9 public order offense cases, 8.3 person offense cases, and 4.1 drug offense cases. I also found that the property offense case rates of males has decreased since 1991 and the rate for females has declined only since 1995. The case rates for drug offense among juveniles increased 39% between 1985 and 2014, roughly from 2.9 cases per 1,000 youth under juvenile jurisdiction up to 4.1 per 1,000 youth. The biggest increase during this period time happened between 1991 to about the mid 90’s when it saw a more than 160% increase. What I found interesting about the drug offense case rates was that males accounting for a big majority of the cases. The male rate of drug offenses was found to be about four times that of females. Some other statistics that I found to be interesting was that for the state of Illinois, the total number of juveniles were represented much more heavily by males at 27,020 of them compared to the number of females at just less than 5,000. Almost one third of the total juvenile male population had person offenses which out of the 10, 475 that were, over 7,000 were deemed as violent crime such as violent crime, violent sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault. Part 1 Gymlife123, Ghost123
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was enacted by the U.S. Department of Justice to support and help fund research and programs targeted at juvenile offenders in the United States. This is done through reaching out to supporting states, local communities, and tribal jurisdictions and communicating current and projected patterns of juvenile offenses. Acting Administrator, Eileen M. Garry. Leads two branches of the OJJDP in providing both administrational with research support along with grant and program designers who work on designing ways to fund and organize the prevention of juvenile offenses and how they are treated in the juvenile justice system. The OJJDP can act as a central data collection point for states and local jurisdictions looking for nationwide juvenile offense patterns and resources on how to combat those issues. These resources come in the form of grants which can help boost funding for designed programs aimed at providing a more just and beneficial justice experience for juveniles within the United States. The OJJDP has and is currently still using the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002 to help form a structural guideline for their aid in smaller jurisdictions. This act and others like it look to isolate the juvenile offense problems with a 2-track approach. This act outlines methods and means to aid both juveniles and society at the same time while still providing an equal and just environment for young offenders. This form of support provided by the OJJDP is crucial in lowering crime rates with the young in this country. Providing an invaluable resources for smaller jurisdictions to collect information and design grants around helps society and juveniles greatly. Along with providing information the support and push that the OJJDP gives legislators on behalf of smaller jurisdictions is also invaluable in allowing the so called little guys to have a voice in federal government as well. The juvenile delinquency issue in America is a fluctuating problem to say the least, but with programs such as the OJJDP we can hope to see more support and funding for states and communities looking to help lower the juvenile offense rates and better treatment of juveniles within the justice system. Part 2 Ghost123, Gymlife123
Part 1: Looking at the website, it starts off right at the About OJJDP section, which is handy if you happen to not understand exactly what this website does. The About section tells that OJJDP works to improve juvenile justice policies and practices by sponsoring research, programs and training initiatives. They develop priorities while setting goals and polices to help guide federal juvenile justice issues. Finally, the OJJDP provides information about juvenile justice issues and awards funds to states that have local juvenile justice programs. In all, this website seems like a dream boat for juvenile justice. Along the side, you can find a list of other pages under this section to visit, such as Vision and Mission, Organization and Staff. Those are just a few though. There are more. There are more sections though to choose from like Research and Statistics, for example. Under that section you can find all sorts of research on things like Juvenile Populations, FBI Supplementary Homicide Reports, FBI Arrest Statistics, Juvenile Court Statistics, Census of Juvenile Residential Placements and National Disproportionate Minority Contact Data books. You can also find a link to data on their racial and ethnic offenses and arrests. Under that, I just clicked the link to the arrests made by races in 2015 link and saw some shocking discriminating facts. The chart starts at 1980 and shows information through the years all the way to 2015 and the information is shown by every one-hundred thousand for each race. The races shown include, black, white, Asian, minorities and American Indian. In the text below the chart, it states that the ratios are ages 0-17 per 100,000 persons and ages 10-17 in the resident population. It was stated that in 1995 black youth were 2.1 times more likely to be arrested than white youth. By 2015, the ratio seemed to increase to 2.5. Now I know that the facts aren’t trying to deliberately show black youth to basically be the ugly ducklings of humanity. They’re just statistics that show what the rates were for that year, but part of me feels like maybe, back in 1995, it wasn’t necessarily a black youth committing a crime that factored into the arrest rates. I feel a lot of it could have been, and probably still is today, due to racism. The same would go for minorities as well. It seems like white youth is stable through most of years. It only started going down when it got closer to 2014 or 2015. All the arrest rates for all the races went down around that time and I think a lot of it had to do with the way of thinking for people in those time periods. You must remember that people back in the day were more racist than they are today, though there are still very racist people out there. Then I looked at the detention rates by states. The chart was multicolored and based off where the offense was committed in 2015. I was interested in the text below, to see it stated “In all but 7 states and the District of Columbia, the residential placement rate for black juvenile offenders exceeded the rate for other race/ethnicity groups. Again, strikes me as sort of racist but I suppose statistics can’t be racist. SomethingProfound123 and WS123
Part 2: I also looked at the rates of suicide in juveniles and homicide in juveniles in comparison to each other. It was scary to see that 28,000 juveniles ages 7-17 died by suicide in the U.S. between 1990 and 2015. What was more frightening was the fact that the homicide rates as the ages go up become more than the suicide rates. Granted neither are good, but that doesn’t go to say that it’s not scary to see the facts of it all. One question I had on my mind was what were ten and elven year old’s going through that caused them to kill themselves or commit homicide? That made me investigate the child abuse links. I found out that one third of victims of child maltreatment in 2015 were under age 4 while back in the day, it was likely more common to see the neglect for children a little bit older. The most generic form of child mistreatment is neglect followed by physical abuse and sexual abuse. People are sick and this website shows the rates of crimes, arrests, corrections and detentions for juveniles. Though it doesn’t necessarily seem to be just about Illinois. I couldn’t seem to find specific information like that. I think this may be just be nationwide. I found it amazing that there is something that is there to help the children who are being abused. Not, just physically but mentally and emotionally. I myself didn’t know that people were being trained to help with the cases like that. It is really a good thing that is happening. I am really fond of the ICAC program. Their program help the police officers know how to respond to any crime related to children. Crime such as child pornogrphy and or older adults trying to talk to minors. “Since the ICAC program's inception in 1998, more than 589,000 law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and other professionals have been trained on techniques to investigate and prosecute ICAC related cases.” That is a very big number. So, that many people are trained to keep children out of harm's way, which is such a great thing to have with living in times like today. “Our charge was to examine the intolerable levels of violence that American Indian and Alaska Native children suffer—the violence they encounter all too often in their homes and communities, the collateral victimization they suffer when someone abuses a parent, and the vulnerability that subjects them to sexual violation.” — commenting on that statement I feel like they did a really great job examining it. I know it had to be very hard because you can’t just tell a child is just getting abused in their own homes. You would have to be really focusing and paying attention to what is going on around them. The OJJDP put up 32 million dollars for the missing children foundation. That is an amazing thing to do. That takes a lot of courage to help the world out and those families with missing children. By, donating so much money they are giving those families a little more hope to find their children once again, and bring them home. SomethingProfound123 and WS123
Those rates of suicide are way higher than I would have imagined. It is hard to try to comprehend how some as young as 7 years old would even think of doing such a thing. As you pointed out, though, the murder rate is higher as the ages go up, and that is scary as well, considering most kids are playing little league baseball and staying out of trouble. Juvenile delinquency is a tough subject to wrap your mind around, especially when it comes to violent crime in young kids. gh_blackhawks123
Those rates of suicide are way higher than I would have imagined. It is hard to try to comprehend how some as young as 7 years old would even think of doing such a thing. As you pointed out, though, the murder rate is higher as the ages go up, and that is scary as well, considering most kids are playing little league baseball and staying out of trouble. Juvenile delinquency is a tough subject to wrap your mind around, especially when it comes to violent crime in young kids. gh_blackhawks123
When you first click on the website, you see the mission statement and overall what they do. After than once you explore the website and go to the stats it is all overwhelming from there. I feel like I don't know even where to begin. The arrest rates start back in 1980 and the list goes on and on. It's very interesting that it does not just once race either. It's all the races combined. It's not all males, it's females too. To move on is the one thing that caught my attention was how many children experience some type of abuse. Psychical, emotional, and or verbal. It's sad to hear about that some children live in a household where they are afraid of them own mom or dad. Also meaning people with a non-supported family means they rebel more and commit crimes they never should have if the family would have just been in the kid's life a little bit more. Another thing that was interesting to me was that 13-15 is the age range that kids end up committing a crime. The fact is you never know if they are going to go on that path of life or sharpen themselves up. Even though most males commit more crimes than females at a young age it is still concerning to see that young kids don't have a good enough family or just have nothing better to do than to commit crimes. It's scary to think I could have a kid that could commit crimes at a young age just because of the youth now. More interesting things is the stats on the website look like it may be staggering down lower than expected. Teenagers have not committed more crimes than adults now and days do. In 2015 murder one in 14 crimes were committed. To me that is a low number but also a big number for a juvenile. Also, one in 13 aggravated assault crimes, again to me that is a pretty low number. Overall, I think I learned a lot of interesting things, and I hope they keep the site updated so in the future I can look up to see how we changed to one year to the next year. I just love how that statistics show the race, black, white, Asian, and even the gender of what a female and male does. I am glad it shows that so we can see what’s really going on and which race, female and male are committing the most crimes. But due to so must crime happening they stopped reporting runaways and small crimes. The education level of these juveniles committing these crimes were very interesting to see. grade school: 86 at 7.5%, grade school graduate: 407 at 35.3%, some high school: 515 at 44.7%, high school graduate or GED: 51 at 4.4%, and missing: 93 at 8.1%. I just find it crazy because what’s going on at home for these kids to act this way. Are they getting checked on? Do the parents or guardians really care what’s going on at school? Parents play a big part in kid’s life and that why some of the teens and kids are committing these crimes. Maybe if the parents really cared who the kids where hanging with, and the places where they hang out at with their friends. I also feel like male and female rates are a huge difference. It’s because male can be more violence and don’t have as much fear as females. Males play a big part of drugs and guns crimes. Females get tempted to do have of the things or crimes they do. There were a total of offenses and out of the 1,524, 1,416 were committed by males. I really hope these statics get better because I feel like there young and all they would need is someone supporting them and caring about them. All these teenagers really want is some attention and want someone there that will help them get in the right path instead of just making sure they are out if there way and going to school. It’s really not far but I feel like if we get better at supporting those rates will defiantly go down.-SMILE123 & BABYBLUE123
The first thing I wanted to know when I opened this page is the statistics on juveniles that get arrested. According to the website the number of juveniles that get arrested under the age of 18 was 921,600 in 2015. The chart says “Estimated number of juvenile arrests, 2015”. It is then estimated that most of the juveniles who get arrested are mostly doing property crime. The property crime portion of the chart says that 208,800 juveniles were arrested. Also, the number of arrest made in 2015 is 56% less than the number of arrests in 2006. Next, I wanted to see who was doing the crimes. The “Demographic characteristics of juvenile arrests, 2015” included females in the results. Females only contributed to 29% of the crimes, mostly some type of a assault. The next category that stood out was the white juvenile arrest. 63% white, with the highest crime being drug abuse violations(75%). The black juveniles that were arrested accounted for 34%, the highest arrest being gambling (75%). The number for gambling doesn’t shock me like that because they were probably in the street playing dice or something trying to get money. But I would think that the number for drug abuse(22%) would be higher for the black juveniles, only because once they become an adult most black males get arrested for drugs use or the possession of drugs. But as adolescents they are being arrested mostly for gambling. Finally, I wanted to see what age range was committing the most drug abuse violations. The latest date the website had was 2012, the earliest 1980. The chart says between 1997 and 2012, drug abuse violation arrests rates declined for juveniles and most adults. The example they gave was that, the rate fell 40% for youth ages 15-17, compared with 17% for adults ages 18-20. Overall from 1980 to 2012, the drug abuse violation rates for youth (15-17) increased 19%. Basically the juveniles getting arrested for drug violations are in between the ages 15-17. Personally, I thought it would be between like 13-17, just because kids do a lot of stuff they see older people do and want to try it. Also between the ages 13-14 kids are in high school and try to do to whatever it takes to fit in. I didn’t see a lower age than 15 on the website, but maybe I missed it. Interesting statistics though.DC123
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP,) enacted by the United States Department of Justice, is a program that strives for a nation where the juveniles throughout the country are healthy, educated, and free from crime and violence. Furthermore, if they should come into contact with the Juvenile Justice system, that encounter should be both just and beneficial to them. The mission statement of the OJJDP declares that they provide national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. The OJJDP supports states and communities throughout the country and implement programs in efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency as well as improve the juvenile justice system so that it protects public safety, holds youth appropriately accountable, and provides treatment and rehabilitative services tailored to the needs of juveniles and their families As I looked through the website, I found some tabs that led me to a chart of estimated juvenile arrests over the years of 2008-2014. I was actually surprised by the gap in the number of arrests from 2008-2014, in part because of how the media makes such data seem like a bigger issue. In 2008, there was over 2.1 million juvenile arrests in the United States. In 2014; however, there were only 1 million juvenile arrests across the United States. Juvenile arrests have gone down significantly in nearly every single category of crime over the last handful of years, which is surprising to me because the media always seems to portray the crime in our country as a rising issue. Government programs such as the OJJDP are great for aiding in prevention of issues related to juveniles throughout America. Without such a program, I think the issues that we see in the juvenile justice system would be on a much greater scale, and would be a much harder challenge to overcome. gh_blackhawks123
While looking at the arrest stats for 2008 to 2014 I noticed that juveniles commit over 60% of crimes including. Now when looking at these stats I compared the adults to the juveniles and it was very clear what crimes juveniles were committing a lot more of. The crimes that these kids are committing are due to many components that are in many cases out of the child's control. In class we discussed that these individuals in many times do not have a safe haven that them and their friends can do what kids do in a controlled setting. They usually have to are forced to go outside where they are met by the police. While looking at the stats the number of drug and alcohol related arrests were alarming. In 2007,law enforcement agencies nationwide made an estimated 14 million arrests for all criminal infractions except traffic violations. Among the specific categories, the highest arrest counts were 1.8 million for drug abuse violations; z approximately 1.4 million for driving under the influence; 1.3 million for simple assaults; and 1.2 million for larceny-thefts. The thing that I am beginning to realize is most of the juveniles in these statistics are in a tough position in life and these offenses are setting them back even farther until they have to start committing more violent and serious crime for either money or protection. It's a huge cycle that has to be organized or at least straightened up or it will never stop.-KLICK123
When first looking at the site it tells you mission statement and explains for the most part what they do. Once you get to the statistics it is very overwhelming, the arrest rates it dates back to 1980 and has a list of not only all crimes committed but separated by black, white, Asian, male, female, an American Indian. It goes all the way up to 2015 it also counts only the ages between ten and 17. From the chart it clearly shows that delinquency arrest rates have dropped overall over the 25 years of data. They also have stopped reporting in runaways and a few others. I also did not know that Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement was administered for the first time in 1997 by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Plus that CJRP replaced the Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities. I like how they also have a whole page of accomplishments, like the year it was signed in to law, and in what years it made accomplishment. I like how they also put up the organizational charts showing chain of command and also a brief description of each title and what they do inside the organization. While looking through the OJJDP website, I found many fascinating stats about juveniles in our country and how they stack up as far as population and crime statistics go. The first statistic that caught my eye was that more than 70 million Americans—about 1 in 4—are younger than 18, the age group commonly referred to as juveniles. This age group has increased consistently since the mid-1980s and is projected to continue increasing until at least 2015. This number is huge and suggests that by 2015 the number of juveniles in America will have increased significantly over the years, meaning that more children could be at risk to commit crimes. Another thing that caught my attention from the website was the fact that many children experience serious victimization from many sources including their family (e.g., child abuse and abduction), peers (e.g., assaults), and strangers (e.g., theft and assault). Violence does not leave its young victims unscathed. These children are often put at higher risk to run away and/or self-harm as they have not developed the correct mechanisms to cope with the abuse and stresses of their lives at home. These children are often times forgotten and neglected and can sometimes be pushed towards a life of crime in order to help themselves feel accomplished or feel like they belong. One of the other things that I found to be very interesting was the fact that the age group that commits the most crimes within the juvenile range is juveniles who are aged 13-15. This stat is very concerning as it shows that most of juvenile crime is happening in the early years of teenage life which can be a huge factor in whether or not a child will become a criminal later on in life, also not as surprising was the fact that most juvenile crimes are committed by male juveniles. This really isn’t surprising since males are known to be more aggressive and more prone to making dumb decisions in their childhood. Pack123 Jeeper123
ReplyDeleteMy attention was also caught to how much children experience abuse. Children are going through so much abuse as well as a wide variety of abuse. It is not just one type of abuse like verbal or physical or mental, it is coming to a point where it is a combination of them. It is heartbreaking because it should not be happening at all. To know and see that the age group committing the majority of the crimes is ages 13 to 15 is just more proof of why it is important for a parent or guardian to be more involved in these children's lives. The lack of I believe has a huge roll in juvenile crimes. I also like how the website is organized. It’s nice to have all the useful information neatly separated into different categories. Many statistics to me were eye opening. It’s crazy to see that the age group with most committed offenses are ages 13-15. This is very early in the teenage years and will only get worse as they grow if they are already getting themselves in trouble at such a young age. I also was not surprised by how males are committed the most offenses. Sunshine123 & UofM123
DeleteThe site goes back to 2014 which is outdated and does not provide very accurate info because of this. It should be up to 2016 by now so we can get an idea of how much the crime rate has dropped in the past few years. Of course the number of juveniles will increase as more people are having kids. Which also means more criminals and deadbeat parents are having kids, so it can be assumed that these at risk kids are going have a higher probability of getting locked up. It is surprising that while the number of kids is increasing the number of them getting locked up is decreasing. The early teenage years are the most common to commit crimes which is due to immaturity and wanting to impress friends/standout. The OJJDP needs to focus on helping our at risk youth become non-offenders. It is a good thing to see the number of children go up the crime committed by children go down. That shows just how well our Justice System has worked to this point and that some of the work has paid off. Also I think it shows that parents are becoming more responsible and are actually caring more for their kids and keeping them in check which helps with everything. NDIrish123, Fireboy123.
DeleteWhile looking through the website I found what they are about. I found the statistics pretty remarkable. The arrest rates date back has far as 1980. the list not only shows crimes committed but are separated by race black, white, asian,and gender male and female. This goes all the way till 2015 and counts all the ages down the line. The chart shows that delinquency arrest rates have dropped a good amount over the 25 years of facts gathered. They also have stopped reporting runaways and other small crimes probably due to it happening so much. I was shocked that the Census of Juveniles was administered for the first time in 1997. Another eye opening fact was that CJRP replaced the Census of public and private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities. they list a page of accomplishments, for example, the year it was signed to become a law and in what years it made accomplishments and the changes. On the page they put up the organizational charts showing the chains of command and a brief description of each title that exists and what they do for the organization. While skimming through the website, I found some cool stats about juveniles in our country and how they rank in population and crime statistics. A statistic that brought to my attention was that more than 70 million Americans about 1 in 4 are younger than 18, the age group which is known to as juveniles according to the organization and juvenile justice system. This age group increased smoothly since the mid-1980s and isn't expected to slow down until at least 2015 which is a very surprising fact considering some crimes have decreased in juveniles. These staggering numbers were very surprising and hopefully they will go down in the future. The statistics of the number of juveniles in Illinois was very surprising to me. In the years of 2008 and 2014 in Illinois there was a steady number of juveniles being arrested. This number between the years 2008 and 2014 was roughly the same and it was about one-million five hundred per year in the state of Illinois. Except the year of 2011 because for some reason it said there was no data collected during this year. Another static that really surprised me was that in 2015 one in fourteen murders were committed by juveniles, also one in thirteen of aggravated assault, and one in five robberies where all committed by juveniles. Which really surprises me and I’m sure a lot more people, because no one really thinks of juveniles committing these crimes and being such a big part of these crimes. But, as of 2010 the FBI does not any longer arrests for running away. So that might affect these statics just a little bit but not much. What I also found interesting was just in Peoria County alone, in the year 2014 there were 19,691 arrests that were of juveniles. Which to me really surprised me. This is because where I live and come from not many kids actually get arrested. Some do, but most of the time when we got caught doing something bad it was just a slap on the wrists and a call to our parents. Which that is why I think it surprised me so much about how many juveniles get arrested. This is because I haven’t been around when kids actually get arrested and convicted for something that they did. But one other thing I also do notice was that thought the years of 2008-2014 the numbers of juveniles that were arrested stayed about the same. Cavsfan123 Trojan65
ReplyDeleteSince the mid-1980's up until present time juvenile arrests rates have continued to rise. This can be argued to have started in some fashion with the war on drugs beginning in the early 1980's. However, it is extremely alarming that we continue to see more and more young adults get thrown into the justice system only to be economically handicapped even further when they get out. Organizations like the OJJDP help to aid and provide information for the public and for local and state jurisdictions. With organizations such as this one we can hope to see a climax in juvenile offense rates in the next few years and possibly a gradual decline with offenses and arrests. If we think locally with the 19,691 arrests in Peoria County alone we can see that this is a series problem no just nation wide but right here in our own back yard. Both community and government support organizations are fundamental in providing support to help combat this growing problem. A year ago I was part of a government task force in charge of organizing and designing prevention plans for youth and drug use, and within my time working with many local communities I have seen first hand young men and women who have turned to criminal activities due to poor education or as a result of living in poverty. Perhaps to target and isolate these underlining issues of juvenile crime we need to isolate what conditions act as triggers and help steer children away from them at a younger age before they come into contact with criminal behavior and as a result the juvenile justice system. Ghost123, Gymlife123
DeleteBeing able to identify where and what type of juveniles commit the most crimes is helpful to police departments all around the country as we try to solve the increasing problem of juvenile crime. Having these statistics handy are a great way for local departments to start trying to control the problem and helping these children find better alternatives than committing crimes and being delinquent. Helping them stay in school and staying away from bad influences will help these kids stay out of trouble. I think the site is a little out of date because the information does not count for 2016 yet. I like how you were able to find the data for local areas. plus they also do not count a few other crimes besides runaways, like forceable rape and i believe one other that they do not count. I think that that count for some some of the drop in juvenile rate overall. Jeeper123 Pack123
DeleteWhile Roaming around on the OJJDP (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) website I didn’t really find statistics for the state of Illinois so I looked on a different website. I researched on a website called IDJJ which is the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. The most recent fiscal year was 2016 that was on the website. I researched the Summary of FY16 Admissions to IDJJ and found some interesting numbers. These numbers are just a summary of all the youth admitted to the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) in the fiscal year of 2016. (July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016) The data is from the departments juvenile tracking system. They break the numbers down from overall totals in the state to numbers in the different counties. One of the most interesting set of numbers was the education levels of the juveniles committing these crimes. The numbers were broke down into some grade school: 86 at 7.5%, grade school graduate: 407 at 35.3%, some high school: 515 at 44.7%, high school graduate or GED: 51 at 4.4%, and missing: 93 at 8.1%. The highest numbers sit at middle and high school students. This is actually sickening. Where are the parents or guardians? The other set of numbers that caught my eye was the holding class crime. I assumed, as I am sure many others have, that most crimes committed by juveniles were misdemeanors. That is very wrong. According to the state of Illinois these numbers were recorded: murder: 2 at 0.2%, class x felony: 56 at 4.9%, class 1 felony: 251 at 21.8%, class 2 felony: 462 at 40.1%, class 3 felony: 186 at 16.1%, class 4 felony: 162 at 14.1%, and a misdemeanor: 33 at 2.9%. It was definitely shocking seeing that a misdemeanor has the lowest number other than murder. These were total numbers that were also broke down between court admissions and parole violations. I personally believe that a lot of this could be prevented if parents and or guardians were more present in these kids lives. I also think that parents and guardians need to be more involved, know what these children are doing in their lives. Who they are with, where they are going, why they are going to those places. Majority of these kids do not have an adult figure that they can positively look up to.
ReplyDeleteI was able to find some interesting statistics on the OJJDP website by looking under the “Easy Access to the census of Juveniles in Residential Placement.” Under the U.S. and State profiles I was able to organize a chart by any category of my choice and in what state. This is located in the EZACJRP sub section of the website. By playing around with different category’s such as sex, race, and ethnicity I was able to find interesting data. I decided to look at two different years specifically. My first selection was Offense Profile of committed residents by sex and race/ ethnicity for Illinois 2015. The difference between male and female is huge. There were a total of offenses and out of the 1,524, 1,416 were committed by males. It seemed like the lowest offense that led to arrest was drug violations only being 39 counts. It was shocking to me to see that in the section of Public orders, weapons had 294 offenses committed by males. There were no offenses for alcohol however. Under most serious offenses done by person robbery had the most numbers. There were 159 total offenses with 156 being committed by a male. After looking through the profiles it was clear that there was a pattern with what sex was doing a majority of the crimes. I decided to look under Detailed Offenses Profile by Placement Status for Illinois in 2015. Out of the most serious offenses 759 delinquents were detained, 762 were committed, and 3 were diversion. By looking at the Offense by race/ ethnicity in Illinois for 2015, whites and Hispanics seemed to come close together in numbers of most serious offenses committed. It’s extremely fascinating to see the different statistics for our state and what are the most committed offenses. I will definitely be looking at more statistics on this website. Sunshine123 & UofM123
Yes, i feel like it is so wrong for a poor child to be getting abused any way possible. What did a child do to deserve that kind of cruelty inflicted on them. By, them getting abused it just tears down their self esteem when they get older. That child will never fully understand how to love themselves if they are ALWAYS getting abused, because they are going to grow up thinking it is right to be treated that way. I also find it heartbreaking if a child is being abused. I do not understand how abusing a harmless child makes you feel any bigger than what you are, or even nig at all. I also could not find any statistics that directly coordinated with Illinois specifically. I’ll have to take a look at that other website that you found. I was shocked at the data you managed to provide from that other site. The statistics you provided for the educational levels had me wondering the same thing as you. Where were these kids parents? Who was watching over them? More importantly, who was influencing these children to act out so much. I personally couldn’t tell you because I assume it’s different for each kid. I agree that the parents had to hold some kind of responsibility to those numbers and you’re right. Had the parents been more present in their lives, the rates would not have been so high. Not so many kids would have gotten in trouble. I feel like the information between the two websites vary by a lot. I appreciate you seeking it out because it really shows us how the data collection and information is different between the two when it comes to the different categories like grade levels, education and so on. SomethingProfound123 and WS123
DeleteI agree, they don’t have a good support system or might not have a good support system and since they don’t they go and commit these crimes because they feel like nobody might care about them or they have nothing to lose. Also, when I see the school the rates it was horrible, there should be more kids graduating and getting more them life them jail or prison. The male statics was inserting because those many males are getting arrested. They are out here on the streets selling drugs and using weapons which are getting them to commit crime. And I am pretty sure the female is just being tempted to do half of the things they do. Females are very emotional and have some many thoughts going through their heads that they can think about committing crimes. I also count believe that robbery had the most numbers. I feel like it might because it’s so easy to just break into someone house and kids want so many things so they feel the need to rob people, and if there bold enough they would just rob you for your money because that what they need or really want. I just found all these numbers to be really interesting too and would love to see if numbers go or down. -SMILE123 & BABYBLUE123
DeleteThe OJJDP accounts for almost all of the juvenile crimes committed in the U.S. and how the juveniles’ court case turns out as well. It is not the most accurate because it states, “Estimates of juvenile arrests involving Hispanic youth are not available”. So therefore it does not paint the true picture of the rates of juvenile delinquency arrests. Looking at the males’ judicially waived cases it is extremely surprising that blacks and other minorities are substantially more likely to have their cases waived than whites. This is very confusing because Dr. White has said in class that blacks and other minorities are substantially more likely to get locked up in the first place. We have also always believed this to be true because this is what we were taught our whole lives. It is also very surprising that there are way more white males and females that are at risk youths. A youth in our justice system that is black or a minority is more likely to get off the hook than whites overall, which goes against everything we have ever been taught. The report was published in 2014 so I’m sure the rates overall have gone down because all juvenile delinquency rates have decreased, but I’m positive that the number of cases among races has stayed statistically the same. It is weird that white males are more likely to get probation than white females. It is good to see the annual reports of just how much funding the OJJDP is giving to governments to assist at risk youth, youth in the system, youth exiting the system, etc. In Illinois it is still not surprising that blacks have a higher commitment rate than whites. At the same time it’s not a huge deal because there are a lot more blacks than whites in Chicago. They also account for a huge percentage of the crime in Chicago especially the thousands of shootings, so therefore they are more likely to become arrested and placed in the system. The youth crime rate is dropping so if we can focus more of our time to assisting kids in Chicago before they become criminals we may have a chance at changing around our states largest crime hub and population center for the better. It is very surprising to see that blacks get off the hook more than whites but I view that as a positive change mostly. It shows that we recognize the issue with over criminalizing the African American population. What I mean by that is that we don't give the African American population the same breaks and the same thought process as we do white individuals. If their is one thing that we need to do is that we need to balance out this issue and make it as equally fair as possible and be consistent with those rates nationwide. Also we need to find a way to more effectively help our juveniles in our system not just after they commit a crime but before they even commit a crime. If we can do that not just statewide but nationwide that will help cut down our crime rate and also help improve communities and our society as a whole. If we could give these kids things to do and to stay active for example sports that would help dramatically. But the key is that we have to make it affordable and make it easy to access for all children. If we could do this especially in Chicago our major crime hub as a state, statewide our crime rate not just for juveniles will decreases but our adult crime rate will decrease also. This also is a long term answer to the problem. If we can delay the time for someone to get into our Justice System the longer we delay the time the less and less of a possibility of them getting in it now. Why can't we plan for the future and fix the future and just contain the present. It's to late to fix what we started now so let's just contain it the best as possible and plan ahead for the future and start fixing it now before it becomes to late and the crime continues. NDIrish123, Fireboy123.
ReplyDeleteWhen looking at the statistics on juveniles in the state of Illinois, I saw that what I thought about the juveniles were true, that most of them were in Cook County. I know that Cook County has more residents and more juveniles, which is probably why it has the highest number of delinquency in the state. Also while looking at the stats I noticed that the county where I am from had zero juvenile delinquency. I looked through and noticed that counties with lower populations sometimes even half of the county where I am from had more juvenile delinquents. After doing some calculations with the stats, I found that 16,061 juveniles in the state of Illinois over forty three percent of them are from Cook County. Eventually if we do not get this number to start decreasing then the number of juveniles might start spreading to nearby counties and then it may start to take over the whole state. Another stat that I found to be interesting is that Peoria County has the sixth highest number of juveniles in the state. Also something I calculated was that the number of juveniles in Peoria compared to Cook is only one in fourteen. Looking at all the counties that are surrounding Peoria, which is six different counties, and adding up all their juvenile number, they only add up to 208 juvenile delinquents. This number is less than almost forty percent of the number of juveniles in Peoria. Seeing that the county I live in had zero juveniles was surprising and almost seems impossible to believe. Comparing all the counties that had zero juvenile delinquents with my county and looking at overall population, I see that every county beside mine has less than 17,000 in population while mine has a population of almost 40,000. What I do not get is why not take this county and use for an example to counties this size or smaller and see if they can decrease their juvenile delinquents. If we start doing this we may be able to start teaching youths to stay out of juvie and not destroy their childhoods.
ReplyDeleteLooking throw all the website for what i read there are around 75 million juveniles in The United States as of 2017.one in four Americans have the potential of being labeled as juvenile delinquents (because they are considered juveniles).More specifically, in 2009 there were 74.5 million juveniles in the US, Also in 2009, the three different classifications of age groups among children, being 0-5, 6-11 and 12-17, were roughly equal.As reported in 2009 by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 57% percent of all juveniles are White, 10% Black, 1% American Indian, 5% Asian, and 22% Hispanic. Poverty, which is also directly connected to a child's chances of becoming a juvenile delinquent, varies by numerous factors. The poverty level of a child can vary by race and living arrangement (and other factors which are not mentioned here). For instance, in 2009, Black and Hispanic children were about three times more likely than White children of being poor. Additionally, in 2010, 21% of all children were living in poverty. 13% of these poverty stricken children lived in a two parent household, 40% lived with one single parent, 43% lived with just a mother figure, 22% lived with just a father figure, and 43% of the poverty-stricken children lived with no parents at all.From reading about all this its just blows my mind on the data from back then to now juveniles delinquents has increased and its only going to get worsen But if we all come together to try to fix what we can now this all can Change we cant change the past but we can try to Prevent what happens to the future.
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After scrolling throughout this website and uncovering some different interesting statistics about the youth crime rate. About 82% of delinquency cases were handled by juvenile courts in 2014 that were referred by local law enforcement agencies. The case rate for property offenses saw a slight increase between 1985 and 1991, however from the 90’s up until 2014, those rates have been on the decline. The property offense case rates are the highest among the other offense rates such as public order offense cases, person offense cases, and drug offense cases. For example juvenile courts processed 10.6 property offense cases for every 1,000 youths under juvenile court jurisdiction compared that with just 7.9 public order offense cases, 8.3 person offense cases, and 4.1 drug offense cases. I also found that the property offense case rates of males has decreased since 1991 and the rate for females has declined only since 1995. The case rates for drug offense among juveniles increased 39% between 1985 and 2014, roughly from 2.9 cases per 1,000 youth under juvenile jurisdiction up to 4.1 per 1,000 youth. The biggest increase during this period time happened between 1991 to about the mid 90’s when it saw a more than 160% increase. What I found interesting about the drug offense case rates was that males accounting for a big majority of the cases. The male rate of drug offenses was found to be about four times that of females. Some other statistics that I found to be interesting was that for the state of Illinois, the total number of juveniles were represented much more heavily by males at 27,020 of them compared to the number of females at just less than 5,000. Almost one third of the total juvenile male population had person offenses which out of the 10, 475 that were, over 7,000 were deemed as violent crime such as violent crime, violent sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault. Part 1 Gymlife123, Ghost123
ReplyDeleteThe Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was enacted by the U.S. Department of Justice to support and help fund research and programs targeted at juvenile offenders in the United States. This is done through reaching out to supporting states, local communities, and tribal jurisdictions and communicating current and projected patterns of juvenile offenses. Acting Administrator, Eileen M. Garry. Leads two branches of the OJJDP in providing both administrational with research support along with grant and program designers who work on designing ways to fund and organize the prevention of juvenile offenses and how they are treated in the juvenile justice system. The OJJDP can act as a central data collection point for states and local jurisdictions looking for nationwide juvenile offense patterns and resources on how to combat those issues. These resources come in the form of grants which can help boost funding for designed programs aimed at providing a more just and beneficial justice experience for juveniles within the United States. The OJJDP has and is currently still using the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002 to help form a structural guideline for their aid in smaller jurisdictions. This act and others like it look to isolate the juvenile offense problems with a 2-track approach. This act outlines methods and means to aid both juveniles and society at the same time while still providing an equal and just environment for young offenders. This form of support provided by the OJJDP is crucial in lowering crime rates with the young in this country. Providing an invaluable resources for smaller jurisdictions to collect information and design grants around helps society and juveniles greatly. Along with providing information the support and push that the OJJDP gives legislators on behalf of smaller jurisdictions is also invaluable in allowing the so called little guys to have a voice in federal government as well. The juvenile delinquency issue in America is a fluctuating problem to say the least, but with programs such as the OJJDP we can hope to see more support and funding for states and communities looking to help lower the juvenile offense rates and better treatment of juveniles within the justice system. Part 2 Ghost123, Gymlife123
ReplyDeletePart 1: Looking at the website, it starts off right at the About OJJDP section, which is handy if you happen to not understand exactly what this website does. The About section tells that OJJDP works to improve juvenile justice policies and practices by sponsoring research, programs and training initiatives. They develop priorities while setting goals and polices to help guide federal juvenile justice issues. Finally, the OJJDP provides information about juvenile justice issues and awards funds to states that have local juvenile justice programs. In all, this website seems like a dream boat for juvenile justice. Along the side, you can find a list of other pages under this section to visit, such as Vision and Mission, Organization and Staff. Those are just a few though. There are more. There are more sections though to choose from like Research and Statistics, for example. Under that section you can find all sorts of research on things like Juvenile Populations, FBI Supplementary Homicide Reports, FBI Arrest Statistics, Juvenile Court Statistics, Census of Juvenile Residential Placements and National Disproportionate Minority Contact Data books. You can also find a link to data on their racial and ethnic offenses and arrests. Under that, I just clicked the link to the arrests made by races in 2015 link and saw some shocking discriminating facts. The chart starts at 1980 and shows information through the years all the way to 2015 and the information is shown by every one-hundred thousand for each race. The races shown include, black, white, Asian, minorities and American Indian. In the text below the chart, it states that the ratios are ages 0-17 per 100,000 persons and ages 10-17 in the resident population. It was stated that in 1995 black youth were 2.1 times more likely to be arrested than white youth. By 2015, the ratio seemed to increase to 2.5. Now I know that the facts aren’t trying to deliberately show black youth to basically be the ugly ducklings of humanity. They’re just statistics that show what the rates were for that year, but part of me feels like maybe, back in 1995, it wasn’t necessarily a black youth committing a crime that factored into the arrest rates. I feel a lot of it could have been, and probably still is today, due to racism. The same would go for minorities as well. It seems like white youth is stable through most of years. It only started going down when it got closer to 2014 or 2015. All the arrest rates for all the races went down around that time and I think a lot of it had to do with the way of thinking for people in those time periods. You must remember that people back in the day were more racist than they are today, though there are still very racist people out there. Then I looked at the detention rates by states. The chart was multicolored and based off where the offense was committed in 2015. I was interested in the text below, to see it stated “In all but 7 states and the District of Columbia, the residential placement rate for black juvenile offenders exceeded the rate for other race/ethnicity groups. Again, strikes me as sort of racist but I suppose statistics can’t be racist. SomethingProfound123 and WS123
ReplyDeletePart 2: I also looked at the rates of suicide in juveniles and homicide in juveniles in comparison to each other. It was scary to see that 28,000 juveniles ages 7-17 died by suicide in the U.S. between 1990 and 2015. What was more frightening was the fact that the homicide rates as the ages go up become more than the suicide rates. Granted neither are good, but that doesn’t go to say that it’s not scary to see the facts of it all. One question I had on my mind was what were ten and elven year old’s going through that caused them to kill themselves or commit homicide? That made me investigate the child abuse links. I found out that one third of victims of child maltreatment in 2015 were under age 4 while back in the day, it was likely more common to see the neglect for children a little bit older. The most generic form of child mistreatment is neglect followed by physical abuse and sexual abuse. People are sick and this website shows the rates of crimes, arrests, corrections and detentions for juveniles. Though it doesn’t necessarily seem to be just about Illinois. I couldn’t seem to find specific information like that. I think this may be just be nationwide. I found it amazing that there is something that is there to help the children who are being abused. Not, just physically but mentally and emotionally. I myself didn’t know that people were being trained to help with the cases like that. It is really a good thing that is happening. I am really fond of the ICAC program. Their program help the police officers know how to respond to any crime related to children. Crime such as child pornogrphy and or older adults trying to talk to minors. “Since the ICAC program's inception in 1998, more than 589,000 law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and other professionals have been trained on techniques to investigate and prosecute ICAC related cases.” That is a very big number. So, that many people are trained to keep children out of harm's way, which is such a great thing to have with living in times like today. “Our charge was to examine the intolerable levels of violence that American Indian and Alaska Native children suffer—the violence they encounter all too often in their homes and communities, the collateral victimization they suffer when someone abuses a parent, and the vulnerability that subjects them to sexual violation.” — commenting on that statement I feel like they did a really great job examining it. I know it had to be very hard because you can’t just tell a child is just getting abused in their own homes. You would have to be really focusing and paying attention to what is going on around them. The OJJDP put up 32 million dollars for the missing children foundation. That is an amazing thing to do. That takes a lot of courage to help the world out and those families with missing children. By, donating so much money they are giving those families a little more hope to find their children once again, and bring them home. SomethingProfound123 and WS123
ReplyDeleteThose rates of suicide are way higher than I would have imagined. It is hard to try to comprehend how some as young as 7 years old would even think of doing such a thing. As you pointed out, though, the murder rate is higher as the ages go up, and that is scary as well, considering most kids are playing little league baseball and staying out of trouble. Juvenile delinquency is a tough subject to wrap your mind around, especially when it comes to violent crime in young kids. gh_blackhawks123
DeleteThose rates of suicide are way higher than I would have imagined. It is hard to try to comprehend how some as young as 7 years old would even think of doing such a thing. As you pointed out, though, the murder rate is higher as the ages go up, and that is scary as well, considering most kids are playing little league baseball and staying out of trouble. Juvenile delinquency is a tough subject to wrap your mind around, especially when it comes to violent crime in young kids. gh_blackhawks123
ReplyDeleteWhen you first click on the website, you see the mission statement and overall what they do. After than once you explore the website and go to the stats it is all overwhelming from there. I feel like I don't know even where to begin. The arrest rates start back in 1980 and the list goes on and on. It's very interesting that it does not just once race either. It's all the races combined. It's not all males, it's females too. To move on is the one thing that caught my attention was how many children experience some type of abuse. Psychical, emotional, and or verbal. It's sad to hear about that some children live in a household where they are afraid of them own mom or dad. Also meaning people with a non-supported family means they rebel more and commit crimes they never should have if the family would have just been in the kid's life a little bit more. Another thing that was interesting to me was that 13-15 is the age range that kids end up committing a crime. The fact is you never know if they are going to go on that path of life or sharpen themselves up. Even though most males commit more crimes than females at a young age it is still concerning to see that young kids don't have a good enough family or just have nothing better to do than to commit crimes. It's scary to think I could have a kid that could commit crimes at a young age just because of the youth now. More interesting things is the stats on the website look like it may be staggering down lower than expected. Teenagers have not committed more crimes than adults now and days do. In 2015 murder one in 14 crimes were committed. To me that is a low number but also a big number for a juvenile. Also, one in 13 aggravated assault crimes, again to me that is a pretty low number. Overall, I think I learned a lot of interesting things, and I hope they keep the site updated so in the future I can look up to see how we changed to one year to the next year. I just love how that statistics show the race, black, white, Asian, and even the gender of what a female and male does. I am glad it shows that so we can see what’s really going on and which race, female and male are committing the most crimes. But due to so must crime happening they stopped reporting runaways and small crimes. The education level of these juveniles committing these crimes were very interesting to see. grade school: 86 at 7.5%, grade school graduate: 407 at 35.3%, some high school: 515 at 44.7%, high school graduate or GED: 51 at 4.4%, and missing: 93 at 8.1%. I just find it crazy because what’s going on at home for these kids to act this way. Are they getting checked on? Do the parents or guardians really care what’s going on at school? Parents play a big part in kid’s life and that why some of the teens and kids are committing these crimes. Maybe if the parents really cared who the kids where hanging with, and the places where they hang out at with their friends. I also feel like male and female rates are a huge difference. It’s because male can be more violence and don’t have as much fear as females. Males play a big part of drugs and guns crimes. Females get tempted to do have of the things or crimes they do. There were a total of offenses and out of the 1,524, 1,416 were committed by males. I really hope these statics get better because I feel like there young and all they would need is someone supporting them and caring about them. All these teenagers really want is some attention and want someone there that will help them get in the right path instead of just making sure they are out if there way and going to school. It’s really not far but I feel like if we get better at supporting those rates will defiantly go down.-SMILE123 & BABYBLUE123
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I wanted to know when I opened this page is the statistics on juveniles that get arrested. According to the website the number of juveniles that get arrested under the age of 18 was 921,600 in 2015. The chart says “Estimated number of juvenile arrests, 2015”. It is then estimated that most of the juveniles who get arrested are mostly doing property crime. The property crime portion of the chart says that 208,800 juveniles were arrested. Also, the number of arrest made in 2015 is 56% less than the number of arrests in 2006. Next, I wanted to see who was doing the crimes. The “Demographic characteristics of juvenile arrests, 2015” included females in the results. Females only contributed to 29% of the crimes, mostly some type of a assault. The next category that stood out was the white juvenile arrest. 63% white, with the highest crime being drug abuse violations(75%). The black juveniles that were arrested accounted for 34%, the highest arrest being gambling (75%). The number for gambling doesn’t shock me like that because they were probably in the street playing dice or something trying to get money. But I would think that the number for drug abuse(22%) would be higher for the black juveniles, only because once they become an adult most black males get arrested for drugs use or the possession of drugs. But as adolescents they are being arrested mostly for gambling. Finally, I wanted to see what age range was committing the most drug abuse violations. The latest date the website had was 2012, the earliest 1980. The chart says between 1997 and 2012, drug abuse violation arrests rates declined for juveniles and most adults. The example they gave was that, the rate fell 40% for youth ages 15-17, compared with 17% for adults ages 18-20. Overall from 1980 to 2012, the drug abuse violation rates for youth (15-17) increased 19%. Basically the juveniles getting arrested for drug violations are in between the ages 15-17. Personally, I thought it would be between like 13-17, just because kids do a lot of stuff they see older people do and want to try it. Also between the ages 13-14 kids are in high school and try to do to whatever it takes to fit in. I didn’t see a lower age than 15 on the website, but maybe I missed it. Interesting statistics though.DC123
ReplyDeleteThe Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP,) enacted by the United States Department of Justice, is a program that strives for a nation where the juveniles throughout the country are healthy, educated, and free from crime and violence. Furthermore, if they should come into contact with the Juvenile Justice system, that encounter should be both just and beneficial to them. The mission statement of the OJJDP declares that they provide national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. The OJJDP supports states and communities throughout the country and implement programs in efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency as well as improve the juvenile justice system so that it protects public safety, holds youth appropriately accountable, and provides treatment and rehabilitative services tailored to the needs of juveniles and their families As I looked through the website, I found some tabs that led me to a chart of estimated juvenile arrests over the years of 2008-2014. I was actually surprised by the gap in the number of arrests from 2008-2014, in part because of how the media makes such data seem like a bigger issue. In 2008, there was over 2.1 million juvenile arrests in the United States. In 2014; however, there were only 1 million juvenile arrests across the United States. Juvenile arrests have gone down significantly in nearly every single category of crime over the last handful of years, which is surprising to me because the media always seems to portray the crime in our country as a rising issue. Government programs such as the OJJDP are great for aiding in prevention of issues related to juveniles throughout America. Without such a program, I think the issues that we see in the juvenile justice system would be on a much greater scale, and would be a much harder challenge to overcome. gh_blackhawks123
ReplyDeleteWhile looking at the arrest stats for 2008 to 2014 I noticed that juveniles commit over 60% of crimes including. Now when looking at these stats I compared the adults to the juveniles and it was very clear what crimes juveniles were committing a lot more of. The crimes that these kids are committing are due to many components that are in many cases out of the child's control. In class we discussed that these individuals in many times do not have a safe haven that them and their friends can do what kids do in a controlled setting. They usually have to are forced to go outside where they are met by the police. While looking at the stats the number of drug and alcohol related arrests were alarming. In 2007,law enforcement agencies nationwide made an estimated 14 million arrests for all criminal infractions except traffic violations. Among the specific categories, the highest arrest counts were 1.8 million for drug abuse violations; z approximately 1.4 million for driving under the influence; 1.3 million for simple assaults; and 1.2 million for larceny-thefts. The thing that I am beginning to realize is most of the juveniles in these statistics are in a tough position in life and these offenses are setting them back even farther until they have to start committing more violent and serious crime for either money or protection. It's a huge cycle that has to be organized or at least straightened up or it will never stop.-KLICK123