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    This response focuses on two types of juvenile delinquents: serious Juvenile Offenders and violent Juvenile Offenders. A serious juvenile offender is a juvenile convicted of a violent part 1 offense against a person. Violent juveniles often skip class or drop out of school as well.

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    Susan Gillespie

    ENGL 3001
    9/9/15
    Response 2
    There are three types of juveniles when it comes to the juvenile
    court system. These three types include juvenile delinquents (who
    break laws), status offenders (who commit crimes that are only crimes
    to juveniles), and dependents (who have been abused/neglected by
    parents). This response focuses on two types of juvenile delinquents
    specifically: serious juvenile offenders and violent juvenile offenders.
    A serious juvenile offender is a juvenile who has been convicted
    of a part 1 offense not including auto theft, petty theft, or dangerous
    substance theft or distribution. There are early onset factors with this
    group of offenders. Such factors can be individual (birth complications,
    impulsivity, psychological disorders) or family related (substance abuse
    by parents or physical abuse). Even with serious juvenile offenders,
    there is still hope that with proper and extensive prevention and
    intervention, they will get out of the juvenile court system and back on
    the right track in life. Therefore, they may not become life long
    offenders.
    A violent juvenile offender is a juvenile who has been convicted
    of a violent part 1 offense against a person and has been involved in
    prior violent offenses or is a youth convicted of murder. Violence done

    by this group of juveniles can either be instrumental (such as taking


    possessions) or expressive (such as violence to show emotion). With
    this violent youth group, there is a greater chance they will be life long
    offenders, especially with serious crimes such as murder.
    These two groups of juveniles share many common
    characteristics among the profile of juvenile delinquents. According to
    the readings in Chapter 6: Juvenile Offenders, these juveniles are
    socially assertive, defiant, ambivalent about authority, resentful,
    hostile, suspicious, destructive, impulsive, and lacking in self-control
    (pg. 182). They often skip class or drop out of school as well. Obviously
    not all serious and violent juvenile offenders share this commonality
    but many do.
    As far as juvenile offenses in recent years, the rates of violent
    crimes have greatly decreased since 1994. Violent youth crimes
    increased in the 1980s and 1990s, but peaked in 1993 and started to
    decline thereafter. After doing extended research, I discovered that it
    wasnt only youth crimes that declined, but also adult crimes and
    crimes in general declined as well. I found a great article from CBS
    News ( http://www.cbsnews.com/news/youth-crime-rate-down/ )that
    states:

    Experts say the decline of crack cocaine and the violent


    gangs that peddled it, combined with big city police

    crackdowns on illegal guns and expanded after-school


    crime prevention programs, have turned around the
    juvenile crime wave that pushed murder arrest rates for
    youths, age 10 to 17, up from 1987 to a peak in 1993.

    I personally agree with this statement. In recent years, there has been
    a great deal of effort in crime prevention programs to reduce crime and
    stop it in its tracks. Not only that, but also the increase in intervention
    programs that work with juveniles to get them onto the right track to
    hopefully ensure they will not commit a crime again.

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