From observation and investigation of small samples of delinquent students it could be argued that delinquent children who have not received positive interventions to correct negative behaviours mature into criminal adults.
Every country has a police department or a Human resource Ministry. The annual report of HRD contains all such data. The reports on United Nations also contain reflections on such issues. But , You may have to filter-out what you need from these often bulky reports.
Thanks Chandra. In my country it is not unusual for crime statistics to be deflated or inflated as it becomes necessary for governance. Crime in Jamaica is highly confined to inner city Garrisons where the population see the police as their chief enemy and the the police see the population and particularly young males as l criminals even before they engage in any form of criminality. It is the general belief that the police see these youths as enemies to be cast in jail and to rot there since this will prevent them from creating terror in the country when they mature. Keeping this environment in mind how well can the statistics produced from police crime Head Quarters be seen as trustworthy and reliable and how meaningful can such data be as main sources of basing serious meaningful analysis.
Jacqueline,
The 10 yeas I worked in the juvenile justice detention center as a teacher in the school located there I have seen my share of kids who had no shot at making it "on the outside". I have also seen the vast majority of youth ofenders who are in and out never to return. Finally I have seen to many young people commit crimes to stay safe from there family members, Haing no where to go after being burned over 20 times up and down his arm by his mother Timmy 14 years of age not 100lbs dripping wet shot his mother in the leg so he could return.
The point I am making is the assumption of once a delinquent always a criminal is just that an assumption. In the U.S. Office of Justice Programs, March 11 2014 National Insititute for Justice Report From Juvenile Delinquency to Young Adult Offending reports that "studies agree, 40 to 60% of Juvenile delinquents stop offending by early alduthood".. The Pittsburgh Youth Study "found that 52to 57% of juvienile delinquents continued offending till the age of 25".( http://nij.gov/topics/crime/Pages/delinquency-to-adult-offending.asp).Also Council of Crime and Justice March 2006 @http://www.crimeandjustice.org/researchReports/Youth%20Offenders%20Who%20Stop%20Offending%20as%20Adults.pdf. A State report out of Oregon reported that 49.4% of incarcerated juveniles hod no adult record and was in line with Washington and South Carolina. http://www.oregon.gov/das/oea/docs/oya/oya-to-corrections.pdf. The National Center for Children in Poverity reports racial disparities as to who returns as an adult offender and who does not see http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_1038.html
Many social factors go into recidivism rates such as (SES) level, two parent homes, drug use by parents, criminal records of the parents ect, There is also what the youth offender was arrested for. Almost 48% of U.S. Juveniles arrested and placd in juvenile hall were for property crimes. In 2008 the recidivism rate in Missouri was only 8% .
I am sorry Jacqueline the data is just not there at least in the U.S. A much better argument however is the School to prison pipeline see http://www.naacpldf.org/case/school-prison-pipeline.
Therefore I must respectfully answer you question in the negitive.
Hope all is well,
Douglas
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