Highlights The data shows that the number of juveniles killing other juveniles was the highest it’s been in more than two decades. The homicide rate…
View More Juvenile Violent Crime Explodes Per USDOJ-“It’s Just Kids Killing Kids”
Category: Child Abuse
Should Parents Be Criminally Charged For Their Child’s Violent Crimes?
Highlights Are we ready to start criminally charging parents who contribute to their child’s violent acts? If so, we are about to undertake an unprecedented…
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Does Child Abuse And Family-Community Instability Cause Violent Crime?
Introduction A synopsis of family and community violence research that is strongly connected to those involved in violent crime. Childhood trauma can “rewire” the brain,…
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Can The Justice System Help Violent People With Mental Health Issues?
Highlights Can programs help those in the community who are threatening violence or mass shootings? Can programs assist adjudicated violent offenders with mental health problems?…
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Who’s Charged With Human Trafficking?
Highlights The numbers for human trafficking seem low compared to the scope of the problem. Out of those charged 68% had no prior convictions. Due…
View More Who’s Charged With Human Trafficking?School Crime-Per The CDC-Weapons Used In High School Crime Declines
Highlights While there are understandable concerns about mass shootings, those threatened or injured with weapons (firearms-knives-clubs) in high schools decreased for males from 10 percent…
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Characteristics Of High-Crime Communities-Dangers To Children
Highlights Where crime is concentrated? Income and location mean much to parents rating neighborhoods as to potential dangers to their children. It’s a unique and…
View More Characteristics Of High-Crime Communities-Dangers To ChildrenSolutions To “The Tragedy Of Baltimore’s Violence Problem”
Editor’s Note: This article supports the nationally syndicated Armstrong Williams television show (I’ve been a guest many times) regarding crime in Baltimore City. I was…
View More Solutions To “The Tragedy Of Baltimore’s Violence Problem”Most Americans Are Victimized By Crime-National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
Highlights National Crime Victims Rights Week is April 24-30. Most Americans are victimized by crime. We examine a survey of 711 crime survivors in California;…
View More Most Americans Are Victimized By Crime-National Crime Victims’ Rights WeekEverything You Wanted To Know About Stalking-Bureau Of Justice Statistics
Highlights An estimated 67% of victims of both traditional stalking and stalking with technology were fearful of being killed or physically harmed. Twenty-four percent of…
View More Everything You Wanted To Know About Stalking-Bureau Of Justice StatisticsAre Historic Declines In Offender Accountability-Correctional Numbers Connected To Rising Violence?
Highlights The incarcerated population fell to its lowest level since 2003. The adult probation rate is at its lowest point in 35 years. Multiple sources…
View More Are Historic Declines In Offender Accountability-Correctional Numbers Connected To Rising Violence?Arrests and Police Stops Are Hazardous-Here’s Why
Highlights For police officers, being proactive and/or making arrests is extraordinarily dangerous. With the immense criticism directed towards law enforcement regarding use of force and…
View More Arrests and Police Stops Are Hazardous-Here’s WhyThe Family And Community Pipeline to Crime
Highlights “I think for a lot of us, we don’t realize how we become dangerous to other humans because we do not care about ourselves,…
View More The Family And Community Pipeline to CrimeCoronavirus And Crime-70 Police Officers Dead-Commercial Burglaries Up 100% in NYC
Highlights 70 police officers have died from exposure to the Coronavirus. Thousands more are out sick. For the moment, crime during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic…
View More Coronavirus And Crime-70 Police Officers Dead-Commercial Burglaries Up 100% in NYCOffender: We Do Not Care About Ourselves Or Others
Highlights Does child abuse and neglect drive crime? “I think for a lot of us, we don’t realize how we become dangerous to other humans…
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Mental Illness, Mass Shootings And Everyday Crime
Highlights The vast majority of our discussions about crime, mass shootings, police encounters that go wrong, treatment failures and recidivism may be explained by the…
View More Mental Illness, Mass Shootings And Everyday Crime#MeToo, Sex Offenders And Probation
Highlights Buzzfeed provides an article stating that a fraction of sex offenders get probation. In my experience, most on sex offender registries got probation. How do…
View More #MeToo, Sex Offenders And ProbationViolence, School Achievement and Future Criminality
Observations Schoolchildren exposed to violence have a tougher time learning. Violence also affects the success of people caught up in the criminal justice system. If…
View More Violence, School Achievement and Future CriminalityMassive Child Sex Abuse and Crime
Observations Child sex abuse and physical violence is part of the experience of 80-90 percent of women offenders. The sexual abuse history of women offenders…
View More Massive Child Sex Abuse and CrimeChild Abuse, Trauma, Crime and Oprah
US Capitol Observations The overwhelming number of offenders continue their criminal activity and the programs that try to assist them often fail or produce very…
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