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The act created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) within the Department of Justice to administer grants for juvenile crime-combating programs (currently only about US$900,000 a year), gather national statistics on juvenile crime, fund research on youth crime and administer four anti-confinement mandates regarding ...
A common contributor to juvenile delinquency rates is a phenomenon referred to as the school to prison pipeline. In recent years, school disciplinary measures have become increasingly policed. [17] According to one study, 67% of high school students attend schools with police officers. [44]
A study of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's arrest data for the 1990s reveals that the rise in detention was unrelated to crime rates. That is, detention as a tactic of controlling young offenders has little to nothing to do with the rate of crime or the "threat" that youth pose to the public. [25]
Research shows that police presence is connected to higher arrest rates for a range of infractions, including disorderly conduct and vandalism. The result: Connecticut, once a national leader in youth incarceration, has seen the number of jailed children drop dramatically. Graduation rates went up; chronic absenteeism went down.
Having more police did not necessarily lead to fewer crimes. Canady, who spent 25 years working as a police officer and 12 years working in schools before taking over as director of NASRO over five years ago, said he thinks school police officers are “totally necessary” — assuming they have finished specific NASRO training.
SSOCS: School Survey on Crime and Safety. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) sends surveys to school pricipals from time to time. Download the SPSS data files from their data_products page. Their 2010 download page is separate. Unzip all the .sav files into data/. Then we'll load them:
Violent crime including murder, rape, assault and robbery declined in 2023. Crime rates have become a key issue in the 2024 presidential race. Violent crime dropped for third straight year in 2023 ...
Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.