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New data shows sharp increase in youth arrests

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Nearly one in three people will be arrested by the time they are 23, a study published Monday in Pediatrics found.

“Arrest is a pretty common experience,” says Robert Brame, a criminologist at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and principal author of the study.

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