Juvenile Justice Bingo

This bingo card has a free space and 33 words: Between 2000-2020, there has been a 77% decline in youth incarceration, Youth of color are much more likely than white youth to be held in juvenile facilities, In 2019, the white placement rate in juvenile facilities was 72 per 100,000 youth under age 18, In 2020, roughly one in four (26%) youths referred to juvenile court upon their arrest were initially detained, Asian youth were the least likely to be held in juvenile facilities (19 per 100,000), Adjudication refers to the juvenile court’s process that determines guilt., Youth who are adjudicated as delinquent (the system’s equivalent of guilty) may be placed in facilities such as youth prisons, residential treatment facilities, group homes, or juvenile detention centers, Since the 1990s, youth crime rates have plummeted, The New York House of Refuge became the first movement in what was to later become the juvenile justice system, the New York House of Refuge, housed over 1,000 youth, Houses of Refuge quickly confronted the same issues that plagued adult jail and prisons – overcrowding, deteriorating conditions, and staff abuse, By the middle 19th century, following the creation of houses of refuge, new innovations such as cottage institutions, out-of-home placement, and probation were introduced, In the 1990s this tough on crime trend accelerated, Juvenile offenses are not called “crimes.”, The second kind of delinquent act is one that wouldn’t typically be a crime if an adult had done it, aka status offenses, There are at least two possible outcomes for your child. A juvenile correctional facility placement or probation, Children under 14 are treated differently., Sexual assault may warrant the child to be tried as an adult, There are deep disparities by gender, race, and ethnicity in both pre-adjudication detention and post-adjudication residential placement., An average of 53 percent of all petitioned cases that went to juvenile court were adjudicated delinquent in 201, 51 percent of person offenses were adjudicated delinquent, Many youth in the juvenile justice system have a history of trauma and ensuing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, In CT Delinquents are persons who, prior to their eighteenth birthdays, have violated or attempted to violate any federal or state law, order of the Superior Court, or any local or municipal ordinance., 47% were physically abused, 79% witnessed violence in their homes regularly, Given the potential length of commitment, it is not uncommon that DCF has juveniles in their custody and control beyond age eighteen., Certain offenses warrant the child to be tried as an adult., There are two main categories of delinquent acts., Houses of Refuge were large fortress, In 2020 youth were committed 35,900 times for delinquency offenses, 114 out of 100,000 youth nationwide are held in juvenile facilities, Youth arrests and incarceration increased in the closing decades of the 20th century and Beginning the in the late 1990s the drive to increase rates of youth incarceration began to recede.

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