Imagine That You Are a Juvenile Delinquency Expert Who Is

Essay

Imagine that you are a juvenile delinquency expert who is head of a juvenile delinquency reduction task force. One of your tasks is to estimate the extent of delinquency in your city. How do you recommend that the task force best estimate the extent of delinquency, and what problems do you foresee with the accuracy of the estimates? In your answer, clearly describe the methodologies that will provide the most accurate estimates of juvenile offending and explain the extent to which these estimates should be accurate.