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1/4/2022
Adilia Watson
Legislation signed into law by New York’s governor will bar the arrest of most children younger than 12 years old, a move pushed for years by advocates decrying the state’s overly punitive justice system.
5/14/2021
The Imprint staff reports
The rate of kids younger than 18 who were arrested fell in 2019, but the numbers varied across demographic groups and offenses.
2/9/2018
John Kelly
Girls make up a larger proportion of juvenile arrests than ever before, and are far more frequently locked up for low-level offenses than boys, according to a research bulletin published recently by the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
7/15/2017
Stephanie Pham
Rates of felony youth arrests have been declining dramatically across California. According to a recent report by Kids Data, juvenile felony arrest rates have decreased by 73 percent between 1998 and 2015, from 19.6 arrests per 1,000 youth to 5.3.
