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Is juvenile crime in Texas declining?

By Gritsforbreakfast

Is juvenile crime declining in Texas despite a dramatic reduction in inmate population at the Youth Commission? That appears to be the implication of data presented to the Legislature by Angela Isaac at the Legislative Budget Board recently about juvenile probation caseloads.I'm listening this morning to early portions of last week's joint hearing on juvenile corrections that I missed, and was very interested to hear the committee's discussion with LBB about Texas juvenile probation caseloads.They discussed LBB-generated data showing the monthly juvenile probation caseload statewide declined slightly almost every month since April 2007, even though the Youth Commission quit taking misdemeanants during that period and began moving youth through their system and back into their home communities more rapidly...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).