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Violent crimes -- United States

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View Resource Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently placed an item of interest online. This item, from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention (OJJDP), is the 1999 national report on Juvenile Offenders and Victims, "the most comprehensive source of information about juvenile crime, violence, and victimization and about the response of the juvenile justice system to these problems."...

https://www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/nationalreport99/frontmatte...
View Resource Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General

Originally commissioned in response to the Columbine High shootings, the Surgeon General's report on youth violence "examines the factors that lead young people to gravitate toward violence, reviews the factors that protect youth from perpetrating violence and identifies effective research-based preventive strategies." While acknowledging that there has been a downward trend in youth violence...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44294/