Members of the millennial generation live with their parents more, have less sexual interaction and start families later than prior generations. Turns out they also got in less trouble with the law as teenagers. On average, 5 percent of Californians born between 1982 to 2004 were arrested while younger than the age of 18, according to a new report by the national Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, a nonprofit. That compares with 11 percent of those born between 1943 and 1960 and 8 percent of those born from 1961 to 1981. Sacramento County’s numbers show a similar downward trend, and the county boasts juvenile arrest rates well below the state average. The drop in arrests is “more than significant, it’s revolutionary,” said Mike Males, a senior research fellow at CJCJ who compiled the report. “This is by far the lowest level of crime that we’ve been able to document in youth.” Juvenile arrests in California have sharply decreased in the past several decades, with police arresting 1,543 juveniles for every 100,000 minors ages 10 to 17 in the state last year – a 13 percent drop from the 2015 figure. The juvenile arrest rate peaked in 1969 at 14,310 arrests for every 100,000 minors between the ages of 10 and 17. more |
by NASHELLY CHAVEZ, Sacramento Bee, 2018-01-05 |
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