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Juvenile crime has continued to rise. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) indicate that children and youth under the age of 18 comprise approximately 36% of those• arrested for all indexes of crime. Much controversy exists relevant to a possible link between juvenile delinquency and learning disabilities. The observation that many delinquent children encounter learning disability problems resulted in the conjecture that learning disabilities may lead to juvenile delinquency. Establishing the relationship between juvenile delinquency and learning disabilities has been difficult. This may have resulted from the ambiguity associated with the definitions, causes, and characteristics involving juvenile delinquency and learning disabilities. This paper discusses research facts/findings relative to the link between learning disability and juvenile delinquency and provides a model for additional research to prove this relationship.

Pressures to adopt more restrictive use of deadly force policies mounted during the 1960s and 1970s. By the early 1980s the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) was recommending a written policy on the use of force and appeared to be encouraging a more restrictive policy. In 1985, the U. S. Supreme Court imposed a Fourth Amendment reasonableness test on the use of deadly force setting aside the fleeing felon statutes based on common law. The Tennessee legislature responded by passing legislation incorporating the standard. This study indicated that Tennessee police departments serving populations of more than 5,000 have reduced the use of deadly force and adopted more restrictive policies.

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