{"id":2641,"date":"2011-12-21T14:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2011-12-21T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:27:31","slug":"a-whole-lotta-handcuffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2011\/12\/21\/a-whole-lotta-handcuffs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whole Lotta Handcuffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2643\" style=\"width: 164px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/caveman_92223\/4225987181\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2643\" title=\"4225987181_858e130021_m\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2011\/12\/4225987181_858e130021_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Chuck Coker via flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Young people have always tended to get into some trouble here and there. What\u2019s shocking, though, is how often young Americans are being <em>arrested&#8211;i<\/em>n fact, by the age 23, nearly a third of Americans will have been arrested for a crime other than a moving violation. This stat is reported by the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/19\/us\/nearly-a-third-of-americans-are-arrested-by-23-study-says.html?_r=2&amp;ref=us\">New York Times <\/a><\/em>and comes out of a study by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.albany.edu\/scj\/shawn_bushway.php\">Shawn Bushway<\/a>, a criminologist at the State University at Albany, and <a href=\"http:\/\/criminaljustice.uncc.edu\/Faculty\/brame-robert.html\">Robert Brame<\/a>, a professor of criminal justice and criminology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Their work analyzed data from the federal government\u2019s National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bushway and Brame found that the current arrest ratio (30.2 percent of young adults having been arrested for things other than a minor traffic violation) was a significant increase from 22 percent back in 1965. According to the researchers, this could be a result of an increasingly aggressive and punitive judicial system that has given rise to more drug related offenses and zero-tolerance policies in schools. According to Bushway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This estimate provides a real sense that the proportion of people who have criminal\u00a0history records is sizable and perhaps much larger than most people would expect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brame says that he hopes the study, which was appeared in the journal <em>Pediatrics<\/em>, could help alert physicians to signs that their young patients could be at risk. As he said in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/story\/2011-12-19\/youth-arrests-increase\/52055700\/1\">USA Today<\/a><\/em>, &#8220;Arrest is a pretty common experience,&#8221; but still,\u00a0\u201cWe know that arrest occurs in a context,\u201d Brame told the <em>Times<\/em>. \u201cThere are other things\u00a0going on in people\u2019s lives at the time they get arrested, and those things aren\u2019t\u00a0necessarily good.\u201d If doctors can intervene, he added, \u201cIt can have big implications for\u00a0what happens to these kids after the arrest, whether they become embedded in the\u00a0criminal justice system or whether they shrug it off and move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the study\u2019s intended audience, the fact that nearly a third of young adults has an arrest record is a serious manner, especially in an era in which many employers routinely conduct criminal background checks and youth records that <em>should<\/em> be sealed are often found to be publicly available on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people have always tended to get into some trouble here and there. What\u2019s shocking, though, is how often young Americans are being arrested&#8211;in fact, by the age 23, nearly a third of Americans will have been arrested for a crime other than a moving violation. This stat is reported by the\u00a0New York Times and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[60,13198,13201,13200,1969],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-adolescence","tag-arrest","tag-robert-brame","tag-shawn-bushway","tag-stigma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}