Adolescent homicide rates have doubled since 1988 and in 1991 homicide became the second leading cause of fatal injuries among youth under the age of 20 (Elliott, 1993; Snyder and Sickmund, 1995). The increase in youth violence has dramatically affected and altered the nature and procedural operations of the juvenile justice system; a system which was previously overburdened and often stretched to capacity by its efforts to effectively manage the historically predominant, and less benign, juvenile property offender...
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Adolescent homicide rates have doubled since 1988 and in 1991 homicide became the second leading cause of fatal injuries among youth under the age of 20 (Elliott, 1993; Snyder and Sickmund, 1995). The increase in youth violence has dramatically affected and altered the nature and procedural operations of the juvenile justice system; a system which was previously overburdened and often stretched to capacity by its efforts to effectively manage the historically predominant, and less benign, juvenile property offender...
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Juvenille Delinquiency Educators, clinicians and other professionals who provide services for children should carefully evaluate reports from children regarding such things as parental fighting, abuse and/or neglect so that they may obviously address those immediate concerns but also assess the possible need for preventive intervention...	5 / 1365
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Juvenile Delinquency Crime statistics, though they are often incomplete and may be misleading, do give an indication of the extent of the delinquency problem. The FBI reports that during the early 1980's, about two-fifths of all arrests in the United States for burglary and arson were of persons under the age of 18...	4 / 996