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Our society has many problems involving crimes, from vandalism to petty theft crimes, to murder to rape, all are also done by juveniles and some just get a slap on the wrist. I think if we start little, like trialing juveniles as adults, we can make it better little by little...
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Our society has many problems involving crimes, from vandalism to petty theft crimes, to murder to rape, all are also done by juveniles and some just get a slap on the wrist. I think if we start little, like trialing juveniles as adults, we can make it better little by little...
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ARSON ARSON PROBLEM Arson Awareness Week Targets Juvenile Firesetting WASHINGTON (FEMA) -- Everyday brings news of a serious national problem - arson. This year, Arson Awareness Week, May 5-12, focuses on juvenile firesetting because young people currently represent about 55 percent of arson arrests, according to the U...	4 / 910
ARSON STATS 1. Arson kills 100 people, injures 2,500 and costs the UK economy ?1.3 billion every year, according to "A Compendium of Arson in the UK", published today by the Association of British Insurers (ABI)...	1 / 275
Should Juveniles Be Tried As Adults Juveniles being tried as adults, who are to blame? In today’s society it is not who or whom it is what. Juvenile offenders are now facing a two court system, not only can they be tried in juvenile court for a crime committed...	4 / 980
Juveniles Deserve a Second This particular article discusses why the juvenile court was founded 100 years ago, what the founders expected to accomplish with it, and how juvenile crime bills are trying to take away confidentiality protections, discretion away from judges, and many other things...	2 / 542
Juveniles A juvenile offender is an offender who is too young to be tried as an adult. The age at which a person can be tried as an adult varies between states, but is ordinarily the age of seventeen or eighteen...	3 / 634
arson Of all of the different crime scenes, arson can be one of the hardest to obtain evidence from because of the possibility of the evidence burning. One of the oldest crimes known, arson is defined by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, as "any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc" (Crime Index Offenses Reported)...	4 / 850
Juveniles are Adults Imagine that you are a parent whose son or daughter has been killed by a 16-year-old. The teenager is brought to court, found guilty of the crime and the judge sentences him to two years in a juvenile facility, after which he will be free with not even a criminal record to follow him...	3 / 591