In this brief, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) illustrates trends and characteristics of delinquency cases handled in juvenile court in 2022.
This one-page graphic published by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) illustrates trends and characteristics of delinquency cases handled in juvenile court in 2022 and documents workloads of juvenile courts in the U.S. using data from OJJDP’s National Juvenile Court Data Archive. Caseloads for all offenses increased between 2021 and 2022, but remained below pre-pandemic levels. Compared with 2005, the 2022 delinquency caseload included a smaller proportion of white youth. The proportion of delinquency cases involving person offenses increased from 26% in 2005 to 40% in 2022. The likelihood of waiver for person offense cases increased 53% between 2005 and 2022. In 2022, two-thirds of adjudicated delinquency cases received a disposition of probation.