Data Snapshots Highlight Youth Placements, Court Cases Judicially Waived

OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book with two new data snapshots:

• Highlights from the 2022 Juvenile Residential Facility Census presents findings from OJJDP's biennial Juvenile Residential Facility Census. The data show the number of youth in placement in 2022 was 75 percent below the number reported in 2000. More than 90 percent of facilities reported evaluating youth for service needs within one week of admission.
• Characteristics of Cases Judicially Waived from Juvenile Court to Criminal Court draws on data from OJJDP’s National Juvenile Court Data Archive. The data show the number of cases judicially waived in 2021 was 57 percent less than the number in 2005. Person offenses accounted for the largest number of judicially waived cases between 2005 and 2021.

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

RESOURCES: 

• Access the full list of Data Snapshots and Data Analysis Tools available from the Statistical Briefing Book.
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