The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has released "Five Things About Youth and Delinquency," a brief highlighting the latest data and research-based findings on youth and delinquency for identifying strategies to support positive youth development.
The five findings are:
- Youth risk-taking is part of the normative developmental process that continues into early adulthood.
- Engagement in offending tends to increase through adolescence, and then decline.
- Only a small percentage of youth are arrested for any crime, and even fewer are arrested for violent crime.
- Youth arrests for violent offences have declined from historic highs in the mid-1990s.
- The proportion of all violent crime arrests involving youth is significantly lower than that of other age groups, including young adults.
RESOURCES:
- Read NIJ's "Five Things" series for research and evaluation on a variety of topics.
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Date Published: August 15, 2024