1. CASE OF THE DAY
“Confinement for 2 Athletes in Sex Abuse of Teammates”
“Hazers off easy”
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

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

12. 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

13. Temporal Trends
In THE GREAT VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC ( ), 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

17. 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?