62% of the public believe that the number of crimes committed by youths is on the rise. However, youth homicides declined by 68% between 1993 and 1999 and are at their lowest rate since 1966.
76% of the public say that they form their opinions about crime from what they see or read in the news, more than three times the number who state they get their primary information on crime from personal experience. http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/media/factsheet.html
Research from the charity Catch 22 showed that two thirds of adults overestimated the level of youth crime, while 10% of adults believed as many as two out of every five teenagers were criminals. In reality only 5.7% of young people are involved in crime.
A survey, carried out for the Philip Lawrence Awards, reported that today’s young people have an extremely positive effect on their communities, with 48% undertaking voluntary activity.
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