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Report Offers Insights For Trading Juvenile Incarceration For Community-Based Strategies [witnessla.com]

 

Over the last 20 years, youth violence dropped precipitously (and unexpectedly) in California.

Law enforcement arrested minors 22,601 times for violent crimes in 1994. That arrest rate dropped 68 percent, to 7,291 arrests two decades later, in 2017.

In addition, a collective turning away from harshly punitive incarceration for kids, and a movement toward community-based diversion and services, have helped keep kids out of juvenile lockups. (But not all kids—racial disparities in the juvenile justice system have become increasingly worse.)

[For more on this story by Taylor Walker, go to https://witnessla.com/report-o...ty-based-strategies/]

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