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CASE OF THE DAY

CASE OF THE DAY. “Confinement for 2 Athletes in Sex Abuse of Teammates” http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/nyregion/15haze.html “Hazers off easy” http://www.nydailynews.com/01-15-2004/news/story/155111p-136355c.html

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CASE OF THE DAY

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  1. CASE OF THE DAY • “Confinement for 2 Athletes in Sex Abuse of Teammates”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/nyregion/15haze.html • “Hazers off easy” http://www.nydailynews.com/01-15-2004/news/story/155111p-136355c.html • Turning a deaf ear to victims' pleas, a judge sentenced two football players from Long Island's Mepham High School to at least four months in juvenile facilities for sexually torturing younger teammates.

  2. FACTS ABOUT JUVENILE CRIME: TRENDS AND PATTERNS

  3. Measuring Juvenile Crime • What are the most useful sources of information about juvenile crime? • Crimes reported to the police? • Arrests of juveniles? • Court statistics? • Victim surveys? • Self-reports of delinquent behavior • Number of persons injured by juveniles? • The newspapers?

  4. What are the most useful indicia of juvenile crime? • All crimes? Violent crimes? Homicides? • Crimes committed in groups? • Share of all crime committed by juveniles? • Is time important? • Prevalence versus incidence? (number of repeat offenders versus total number of offender versus total number of crimes committed by juveniles?

  5. Collateral Dimensions of Juvenile Crime • Drinking and drug use • Truancy • School offenses • Carrying guns and other weapons • Indicia of Adolescence • Crimes committed in groups (significance?) • Gang crimes • The Berkeley case, Central Park Jogger case

  6. How Reliable are These Data? • What is the correlation between arrest and self-reports? • Vary by age? Type of crime? Gender? Race?

  7. Social Dimensions of Youth Crime • Cross-age victimization is rare, generally goes upward • Intra-race • Age peaks vary by type of crime – much earlier for property crimes, much later for violent crimes, especially for homicide

  8. Temporal Trends • In THE GREAT VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC (1985-96), most of the increase and decline was among: • Adolescents 13-17 • Non-white victims • Gun homicides (for all age groups) • Arrests, not necessarily victimization • Urban areas • Drug Arrests

  9. LEGISLATIVE RESPONSE • Newspapers claim that there is a juvenile crime wave….SUPERPREDATORS!! • Legislators claim that new crime wave calls for tougher laws • What evidence do you marshal? What facts do you develop to counteract the sensationalism that invariably accompanies such claims?

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