Created: Jun 17, 2010 11:00 AM
Statistics were released in the Senate yesterday showing the scale of juvenile crime.l From 1965 to 2000, between 27 percent and 40 percent of all children born in Bermuda were born to unmarried parents.l There has been a six-fold increase in juvenile probationers between 2005 and 2008.
Crime and the young
Statistics were released in the Senate yesterday showing the scale of juvenile crime.
l From 1965 to 2000, between 27 percent and 40 percent of all children born in Bermuda were born to unmarried parents.
l There has been a six-fold increase in juvenile probationers between 2005 and 2008.
l Twenty three percent of the 93 juvenile offenders before Magistrates' Court in 2008 were repeat offenders.
l Between 2005 and 2008 an annual average of 90 young people up to 18-years-old were intake cases of Child and Family Services annually of which 35 percent were classified as 'out of parental control'.
