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Title: Serious, Chronic and Violent Juvenile Offenders


1
Serious, Chronic and Violent Juvenile Offenders
  • Chapter 6

2
Definitions
  • Serious Juvenile offender has been convicted of
    a Part I offense
  • Serious child delinquent between the ages of 7
    and 12 and has committed one or more homicides,
    aggravated assaults, robberies, rapes or arson

3
Definitions
  • Chronic juvenile offender 5 or more separate
    charges of delinquency
  • Violent juvenile offender convicted of a crime
    against a person and has a prior of a similar
    offense or murder

4
Definitions
  • Missouri Law

5
Definitions
  • Serious or chronic offenders
  • Low income families
  • Rates troublesome by teachers and peers
  • Poor school performance by age 10
  • Adjudicated delinquent by age 13
  • Has a sibling convicted of a crime

6
Chronic Juvenile Offenders
  • Two dimensions
  • Frequency of offending
  • Length of time over which offending persists

7
Chronic Juvenile Offenders
  • Nonwhite males
  • Chronic offending lower in females
  • Early onset offender (10 and younger) have more
    serious and more violent careers in adolescence
    and young adult years

8
Risk Factors
  • Juvenile recidivism
  • Demographics (low socio-economic)
  • Offense history
  • Family and social variables
  • Physically and sexually abused
  • Single parents family
  • Out of home placements

9
Risk Factors
  • Significant family problems
  • Delinquent peers
  • Strongest predictors
  • Age at first commitment
  • Age at first contact with police
  • History of nonsevere pathology

10
Risk Factors
  • Not significant predictors
  • School attendance
  • Academic achievement

11
Violent Juvenile Offenders
  • Youth who become violent before age 13 (before
    puberty) generally commit more crimes
  • Often times, youth will stop committing violent
    crimes as they transition into adulthood (aging
    out)

12
Serious Child Delinquents
  • Most chronic juvenile offenders begin their
    careers by the age of 12
  • Many start by age 10

13
Serious Child Delinquents
  • Risk Factors
  • Individual
  • Birth complications
  • Hyperactivity
  • Family related
  • Parental substance abuse
  • Poor childrearing practices

14
Serious Child Delinquents
  • We are seeing more young delinquents between the
    ages of 7 and 12
  • Although juvenile crime is declining overall,
    young delinquents are becoming more serious and
    violent

15
Violent Adolescent Females
  • Most girls enter the JJ system as status
    offenders
  • Often girls become perpetrators in response to
    their own victimization, substance abuse,
    economic conditions and dysfunctional family
    systems

16
Predictors of Youth Violence
  • Child abuse
  • Difficult home life
  • Exposure to crime (victims or witnesses)
  • Aggression
  • Dishonesty
  • Conflict with authority figures

17
Predictors of youth violence
  • Juvenile victims are often involved in
    delinquency
  • Early aggressive and disruptive behavior in
    preschool or elementary

18
Predictors of youth violence
  • Animal abuse
  • Possible symptom of conduct disorder

19
Myths
  • Myths about Youth Violence
  • Page 172

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Antisocial Personality Disorders
  • Show evidence of conduct disorder before age 15
  • Pattern of irresponsible and anti-social
    behavior since 15
  • Drugs, alcohol, voluntary sexual intercourse
    unusually early for their peer group
  • Read page 173

21
Psychopathic/Sociopathic
  • Chronic asocial behavior rooted in sever
    deficiencies in developing a conscience
  • Failure to develop feelings of guilt
  • Can originate with an overly dominant mother
  • Psychopaths are charming in casual personal
    contacts

22
  • Psychopaths
  • Very egocentric
  • Never see their own responsibility for anything
    that goes wrong
  • Normal intelligence
  • Lack emotional intelligence
  • Juveniles are viewed as incorrigible

23
Conduct Disorders
  • Anger exploding among teenagers
  • Difficulty following rules
  • Cant behave in a socially accepted way
  • View as bad rather than mentally ill
  • Page 175

24
Guns and Juveniles
  • 2001 Youth Risk Behavior Survey
  • 17.4 of students had carried a weapon to school
  • 6 had carried a gun
  • Many state that they own and carry guns for
    protection or for committing crimes

25
Guns and Juveniles
  • Boys who own guns are more likely to be involved
    in delinquent behavior
  • This is versus gun owners for sport
  • More likely to sell drugs
  • Parental responsibility laws
  • Child Access Prevention laws (hold adults
    accountable)

26
Violent Juvenile Crime
  • Juvenile arrests for violence in 2000 were the
    lowest since 1988

27
Violent Crimes
  • Murder
  • Murder rate in 2000 was the lowest since 1965
  • Arrest rate for murder peaked in 1993
  • Since 1993 the arrest rates for murder dropped to
    the lowest level in more than 2 decades

28
Violent crimes
  • Forcible rape
  • Arrests for forcible rape declined 26 from 1991
    to 2000
  • Females made up 1 of those arrests
  • Juvenile sex offenders begin deviant behaviors at
    a young age
  • Victims are usually younger children that the
    offenders know

29
Violent crimes
  • Robbery
  • Arrest rate declined during the 1980s
  • Peaked between 1994 and 1995

30
Decline in Juvenile Arrests
  • Juvenile crime peaked around 1994/1995 and began
    to decline. Why?
  • Strong economy
  • Changing demographics
  • Changes in the market for illegal drugs and use
    of firearms
  • Expanded imprisonment
  • Policing innovations
  • Cultural intolerance for violence

31
School crime and violence
  • School violence gets lots of media attention
  • Generates widespread fear
  • Incidents are declining
  • School shootings are RARE!

32
School crime
  • Between 1998 and 1999, only 47 deaths at schools
    related to violence
  • Students who carry weapons to school has declined
    from 1993 to 2001.

33
School crime
  • Threats
  • Bullying
  • Extortion

34
Bullying
  • People dismiss bullying as a rite of passage
  • Some feel it is a cycle that kids go through
  • intentional, repeated hurtful acts, words or
    other behaviors
  • Physical
  • Verbal
  • Psychological
  • sexual

35
bullying
  • Two components
  • Repeated harmful acts
  • Imbalance of power

36
Bullying
  • 1.6 million children in grades 6 through 10 are
    bullied at least once a week
  • Long last impact
  • Leads to anti-social behavior
  • Vandalism, shoplifting, skipping or dropping out
    of school, fighting, use of drugs and alcohol

37
Bullying
  • Victims
  • Low self esteem
  • Depression
  • Problems can reach into adulthood

38
School Shootings
  • Discuss the table on page 185
  • Secret Service
  • National Threat Assessment Center
  • 2/3 of the 37 school shootings over the last 25
    years, the attackers felt
  • Persecuted
  • Bullied threatened
  • Attacked
  • injured

39
School shootings
  • Violence is evolutionary
  • Signposts or clues
  • Students will talk about or let out clues in the
    weeks or months before attack
  • Subtle threats
  • Boasts
  • Innuendos
  • Predictions
  • Stories, diaries, songs, poems, drawings

40
School Shooting Myths
  • School violence is an epidemic
  • All school shooters are alike
  • The school shooter is always a loner
  • School shootings are exclusively revenge
    motivated
  • Easy access to weapons is the most significant
    risk factor
  • Unusual behaviors, hobbies or interests are
    common and are destined for violence

41
Gang Violence
  • Gang violence is not a new phenomenon
  • Gangs often attract who men who enjoy violence
  • By the late 1990s every state has reported gang
    activity

42
Gang violence
  • 24,500 reported gangs
  • Beginning to decline
  • Female gang members commit few violent crimes
    than males

43
Gangs
  • Gang
  • Common name or symbol
  • Form for a common purpose, usually to engage in
    criminal acitivity
  • Street gang claim territory
  • Youth gang subset of a street gang

44
Gangs
  • Reputation is important
  • LA and Chicago report the highest rates of gang
    homicide

45
Why youth join gangs?
  • Structure
  • Sense of belonging
  • Nurturing
  • Economic opportunity
  • Excitement
  • Security, love, acceptance, food, shelter, power,
    money

46
Why youth join gangs
  • Family structure
  • Dont get structure and parental attention at
    home
  • Want a sense of belonging
  • A family containing gang members is often of a
    racial minority and on some form of government
    assistance
  • Lack a male figure or if he is present he is a
    criminal or drug addict

47
  • Family structure
  • Mother may make excuses for the child
    accusations against society
  • Children are taught not to take responsibility
    for their actions
  • Many parents may have been members of gangs
  • Some join gangs who are of immigrant groups and
    lose respect for their parents and culture

48
  • Peer Pressure
  • Seek approval from peers
  • Want prestige and power
  • Fulfill an egotistical need
  • Thrive on adrenaline rush
  • Can be a chemical/biological makeup

49
  • Socio-economic pressure
  • Want money and power
  • Dont have legitimate means to getting money
  • Want clothes, cars, drugs

50
  • Gang membership
  • Page 195 and 196
  • Socialized delinquency sanctioned by their
    culture
  • Feel no guilt for the unlawful acitivites

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  • Gang Myths
  • Page 198 and 199
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