CJA374 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper summarizing the key points of the “Juvenile Arrests 2008” article. Address the following in your paper: o The overall decrease in juvenile arrests. o The increase in drug offenses and simple assaults. o Implications for juvenile females and members of ethnic and racial minorities. o The increase in arrests of juvenile females and the decrease in arrests of male juvenile offenders for violent crimes. o An assessment of tracking juvenile arrests as a method of measuring the amount of and trends in juvenile crime.