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[quote=ICEBLUE,258313]A report from China Daily said that  China 's  juvenile delingquecy is on the rise.  The following an extract:

With the number of juvenile criminals increasing from 33,000 in 1998 to an estimated 80,000 this year, juvenile crime in China has become a "grave" problem.

Two-thirds of the 4 million criminal cases annually handled by courts involved juveniles suspects, according to data presented at a seminar on juvenile crimes and judicial justice in Beijing yesterday.

"Crimes committed by youngsters have been causing a growing amount of severe social damage," deputy secretary-general with the Chinese Society of Juvenile Delinquency Research Liu Guiming said at the seminar.

"Offenders' average ages have become younger, and they are committing new types of crime and forming larger gangs. They even commit crimes without specific motives, often without forethought."

Some of the most common crimes are robbery, theft, intentional injury, rape, gang fighting, and provoking fights and quarrels.

But last year, the number of crime categories grew 22 percent from 2005 to more than 150 types, as offences including new forms of fraud and gang-related Internet crimes were added to the law books.

Liu attributed the increase in crime to "the influence of broken families, the depletion of school education and incomplete social management".

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