Juvenile Justice Reform: A Case Study

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Early on the federal government began in intent in the way state conducted juvenile justice matter. Despite, intervention from the federal government, juvenile arrests for violent crimes skyrocketed nationally by 216% from 1960 to 1974 (Congressman Tony Cardenas 2017). The rate of juvenile crime far surpassed the growth rate of the juvenile population, which was only 49.5%; concluding, that federal funding to states was not enough to fully combat the growing crime rate, and the many cried out for a centralized federally managed entity (Congressman Tony Cardenas 2017). As a result, in 1974 congress created the JJDPA, the first comprehensive section of juvenile justice legislation.
Typically trends in juvenile crime tend to mirror the same trends