rrested. In addition, Juvenile Court Statistics are useful because this report focuses on the cases brought to juvenile court, the services provided by juvenile court, and the effectiveness of the services to prevent delinquency. However, when forms of delinquency are measured by unofficial methods like self-report studies, these are not useful because when people are asked about their own law-breaking behavior, very few adolescents or delinquents will be honest. Many individuals may embellish the truth, while others will not tell the entire truth and leave many important details out. When delinquency is measured this way, many of the findings will be biased and false information will be published as well. In short, official crime statistics that are measured with documented proof are better forms of delinquency measures than unofficial crime statistics.In conclusion, delinquency is a serious issue in today’s society. Even though some statistics show that crime has gone down in some areas, it is still a major problem in many other areas. To illustrate, statistics show that “27 million offenses were reported to the police (Regoli 52) and of all persons arrested, 18 percent were juveniles (36).” In addition, it seems that juveniles are now committing more criminal offenses such as murder, aggravated assault, and weapon possession which show delinquency to be more serious now than it was a few years ago. In brief, serious delinquency is an issue that needs to be given more attention because of children’s ever changing behavior from good to bad to worse. Juveniles are being charged with more serious crimes and the only solution society seems to have is to lock them up and hope that they will reform themselves. However, until juveniles can be included in the process of coming to a solution to help themselves, delinquency will always be a prevalent problem in an ever-changing society such as this ...
