"Violent Youth Crime in U.S. Falls to New 32-Year Low",
written by Jeffrey A. Butts, was published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics
and John Jay College on October 4, 2013. This article provides a statistical
analysis of the dramatic decrease of violent crimes committed by juveniles
between the years of 2009 and 2012. By
only using four different categories of crime – murder, forcible rape, robbery,
and aggravated assault – the FBI is able to determine the juvenile crime trends
throughout the year. The article also provides crime rate data from 1980 to
2012, which is very interesting to review.
It shows how many juveniles were arrested between the ages of 10 and 17 for
every 100,000 juveniles in the population. I chose this article because the
charts provide a helpful visual aid to help explain the decline of juvenile
crime. Also, crime statistics are
important because they portray the trend and direction of crime in the United
States.
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