OJJDP Adds Law Enforcement and Court Data to Statistical Briefing Book

OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book (SBB):

• The Easy Access to Juvenile Court Statistics and Easy Access to State and County Juvenile Court Case Counts data analysis tools have been updated to include data through 2014. This release introduces national estimates of delinquency cases involving Hispanic youth.
• FAQs about Juveniles in Court and Juveniles on Probation have been updated to include data through 2014.
• FAQs describing the annual number of juvenile arrests and juvenile arrest rates found in the law enforcement and juvenile crime section have been updated to include data through 2015.
• FAQs describing state variation in the age boundaries of juvenile court (2016) and the mechanisms for trying juveniles as adults in criminal court (2015) have been updated.

Developed 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.

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