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12-year-old and two other youths were charged with kidnapping a 57-year-old man

and taking a joy ride in his Toyota. As the man pleaded for his life, the

juveniles shot him to death · A 14-year-old boy was murdered while trying

to reclaim a $2,500 stereo system he had received from his grandfather. Five

juveniles, ranging in age from 15 through 17 years, were charged with the crime.

(Hazlehurst & Hazlehurst, 1998, p. 150). Profiles In every community,

roughly 2 percent of the juvenile offender population is responsible for up to

60 percent of the violent juvenile crime. Only 25 to 35 juveniles in every

100,000 members of the population will engage in criminal activity that matches

the Serious Habitual Offender pattern. Based on criteria developed by the U. S.

Department of Justice, this means that 0.03 percent to 0.04 percent of all

juveniles between 14 and 17 years old will be Serious Habitual Offenders. A

profile of a Serious Habitual Offender was collected from data collected and

analyzed by the Reagan Administration team at the U.S. Department of Justice in

the 1980s presents a graphic portrait of the serious habitual offender: The

typical SHO is male, 15 years and six months old. He has been arrested 11 to 14

times, exclusive of status offences, and five times for felonies. He comes from

a dysfunctional family; and in 46 percent of cases, at least one of his parents

also has an arrest history. He has received long-term and continuing social

services from as many as six different community service agencies, including

family, youth, mental health, social services, school, juvenile, or police

authorities, and continues to drain these resources for years before he is

finally incarcerated as a career criminal. The typical SHO’s family history

follows a classic pattern of social pathologies: 53 percent of his siblings also

have a history of arrest; and in 59 percent of these cases, there is no father

figure in the home. The absence of a father is particularly destructive for

boys; only 2 percent of SHOs are female. Furthermore, 68 percent of these

offenders have committed crimes of violence, 15 percent have a history of

committing sex crimes, and 51 percent have a reported missing or runaway record.