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30 000 for 5 years: why in the USA students under the age of 10 are arrested

Crime statistics compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that between the 2013 and 2017 years (the most recent year for which full data are available), at least 26 966 children under the age of 10 were arrested in the United States. According to the data, the number of children arrested between the ages of 10 and 12 is 228 017 for the same period. Writes about it Yahoo! News.

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Child arrest regulations apply throughout the world. For example, in England and Wales the age of criminal responsibility is 10 years and there is an alternative regime for those under 10 years of age. In Scotland - 8 years.

In the U.S., in 34 states there is no minimum age for criminal prosecution, while in most other states it is 10 years. The federal system prefers to obey the state juvenile delinquency system, according to which, according to the Congressional Research Service, a child can be arrested even at the age of seven.

According to the Department of Justice Juvenile Justice and Crime Prevention Office, in 24 states there is no minimum age for referring juvenile cases to an adult criminal court.

Despite the fact that the number of arrests of minors between the ages of 10 and 17 in the United States has been steadily declining since it reached a peak in the mid-1990, while arrests of children under 12 are only a small fraction of the total number of annual arrests in the United States, experts say That is still too much.

"That's funny. If we're going to treat children this way, we need to think about the consequences, especially if we want to stop the violence, said Lisa Thurau, founder and executive director of Strategy for Youth, a nonprofit that trains law enforcement on how to deal with young children. “It creates violence rather than preventing it, and it weakens children’s connection to school.”

Of particular concern with juvenile arrests is disciplinary action for members of different races, and how officers are trained to handle children.

From 2013 to 2017, approximately 30 students were arrested in US schools. In 000, this amounted to 2103 students, in 6 - 394, 2014 - 6, in 458 - 2015 schoolchildren, and in 5 - 144.

Hysteria led to the arrest of 6-year-old child

Meraline Kirkland, the grandmother of one of the 6-year-olds arrested this month in Orlando, said her granddaughter, an African American, was detained on charges of assaulting an employee whom she allegedly pushed in hysterics.

The girl was taken to a local juvenile assessment center and fingerprinted.

“When they told me about it, I was stunned,” Kirkland said. “In the office I saw two photographs of my six-year-old granddaughter.”

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Kirkland said that if a school employee took the time for the girl, she would know that the girl is prone to tantrums because she suffers from sleep apnea.

Police Sheriff Orlando Rolon said he was fired for violating department policies because he did not receive permission from the chief to arrest a child under the age of 12.

Details about the arrest of another 6-year-old child by the same officer who arrested Kirkland’s granddaughter were not disclosed by Rolon, he simply announced the rules governing the privacy of minors.

“The top priority is to gain and protect trust between the public and officials,” Rolon said at a news conference. -Because of this incident, trust was questioned. I apologize to these children and their families."

And this is not the only case of the arrest of children.

In July, an 10-year-old black boy was arrested for aggravated assault after throwing a ball in the face of another child while playing a dodgeball game at a playground in a suburban school in Detroit, Michigan.

In August, the US Court of Appeals for the 8 District ruled that a school resource specialist in Kansas City, Missouri, who handcuffed a crying 7-year-old boy for refusing to go to the principal’s office, committed “reasonable actions” and did not violate constitutional the rights of the child. According to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the school district, a hearing impaired boy started screaming after being asked to sit next to another student who teased him.

In January 2018, an 7-year-old boy was arrested at a school in Miami, Florida, because he did not respond to the teacher’s remark “do not play with food.” The police said that he “attacked” the teacher. According to the head of the police department of schools in Miami-Dade, the arrest of the 7-year-old student was "justified for the benefit of others and the boy himself, so that his promiscuous and violent behavior would not cause further harm."

In addition to these, there were hundreds more arrests for serious crimes, according to the FBI. In 2017, 23 children under the age of 10 were arrested for sexual assault, 13 for robbery, 52 for arson and 362 for theft, including 9 for car theft. Details of these cases are not disclosed.

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It is unclear how many such incidents occurred in schools. According to the US Department of Education's Civil Rights Department, over 2015-2016 years, more than 290 600 cases in schools were referred to law enforcement or led to arrest.

Black schoolchildren were more prone to this disciplinary action.

In 2013-2014, the data is almost the same - 260 students were referred to law enforcement, and 000 were arrested at school. Additional research shows that in-school suspensions were more likely to affect children based on race.

Lack of training

Some experts argue that the intervention of police and school departments to work with such young children is not surprising.

“None of this is shocking. This is predictable if police officers working with children and adolescents do not change their working methods,” Thurau said. — You must be adequate in making decisions in relation to children, taking into account the level of development and health, while respecting racial justice. We don’t train officers to work in schools.”

According to Turau, recruits in police academies are usually given a total of four to six hours of instruction in how to deal with child abuse, in schools and on the streets. A report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics for the 2013 year states that 62% of the police were trained in youth engagement.

Only some states have laws and regulations regarding certification or police training.

Mo Canadi, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Specialists, a nonprofit organization that trains around 10 000 school resource specialists across the country each year, says police training is not just about child education.

“An officer working in a school should not be indifferent,” Canady said. “We are very clear that the person who will work in this environment must undergo a very careful selection process.”

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“So you need to make sure that the person's moral character is suitable, that they have a good track record, that they really want to work with children,” he added.

Kanadi said his organization provides a course for officers that includes working with students with special needs and understanding brain development in adolescents.

“We want officers to understand that there is science behind this. What happens to children at different stages of their lives and how that affects brain development,” Canady said. “When we understand this and the officers are well informed, it is possible to talk about de-escalating situations.” It is very important".

Kanadi, a retired Alabama police officer who devoted half his 25 year career to law enforcement as a school resource officer. He said that officers are also trained to refrain from participating in cases that are purely disciplinary matters.

“The number one goal we have for SROs who come to our classes is that the most important thing is to build relationships with the students,” Canady said. “Bridging the gap between law enforcement and youth is critical because the right actions can prevent serious crime.”

Carol Mason, president of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said many programs have been developed in recent years to reduce the number of child arrests and provide the police and schools with the tools they need to solve this problem.

Racial inequality

In July, the US Civil Rights Commission issued a report, “Beyond Suspension: Studying School Policy and Communication with the School-Prison System for Children of All Races with Disabilities.” The study showed that students with disabilities are at a higher risk of being expelled than their peers, and dark-skinned students with disabilities lost about 77 days more school activities through suspension than their white peers.

A commission report also revealed that 1,6 million students attend school with a school counselor. The report indicates that in the 2015 – 16 school year, more than 27 000 school professionals were registered in schools compared to 23 000 social workers.

“Individual racial groups do not commit more disciplinary offenses than their white peers—but students of other races collectively receive significantly more disciplinary punishments than their white peers and receive harsher and longer sentences than their white peers for similar crimes.” — Katherine E. Lhamon, chairwoman of the commission, wrote in a letter addressed to US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

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The Commission made a number of recommendations, including providing teachers with resources, guidance, training and support for non-discriminatory discipline in schools. Congress should provide financial incentives to states to ensure that all schools have adequate counselors and social workers.

Mason said that in some school districts teams have been created that monitor the behavior of students to find out what resources they need to make a child successful and avoid disciplinary problems.

FBI reports also show that the number of children under age 10 arrested has gradually declined over the past four years, from a 2014 high of 6 to 458 in 4068. Statistics for 2017 have not yet been published.

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