OJJDP Updates Statistical Briefing Book

OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book (SBB):

• Easy Access to Juvenile Populations and related FAQs in the Juvenile Population Characteristics and Hispanic Youth in the Juvenile Justice System sections have been updated to 2018.
• FAQs in the Juvenile Population Characteristics section have been updated, including living arrangements, teen moms, and high school completion.
• Easy Access to State and County Juvenile Court Case Counts has been updated to include data through 2017.
• FAQs about school-related violent deaths in the Juveniles as Victims section have been updated to include 2017 data.
• FAQs about juveniles in adult jails and prisons have been updated to include 2017 data.

Developed for OJJDP by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, the research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, SBB offers easy online access to statistics on a variety of juvenile justice topics.

Resources:

• Keep up with OJJDP's Statistical Briefing Book on Twitter.