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Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 2020 Annual Report
NCJ 255340
Annual Report Archive
In fiscal year 2020, OJJDP awarded nearly $370 million to support state, local, and tribal efforts to address juvenile delinquency, protect children, ensure offender accountability, and enhance public safety. The report details how OJJDP’s funding, research, training, and technical assistance helped to enhance the capacity of the juvenile justice field in accordance with the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018. It also presents the most recent findings from OJJDP’s Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement and Juvenile Residential Facility Census.
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Expunging Juvenile Records: Misconceptions, Collateral Consequences, and Emerging Practices (Bulletin)
NCJ 254804
Youth with juvenile records frequently experience collateral consequences of their arrest or adjudication, including difficulty finding employment, serving in the military, and accessing higher education and housing. This bulletin discusses the most common misconceptions surrounding the expungement of juvenile records and highlights emerging practices that federal, state, and local governments are taking to address the issue, such as enacting ban-the-box legislation, strengthening laws to limit access to juvenile records, and sponsoring expungement clinics.
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National Report Series Publications—
Juvenile Residential Facility Census 2018: Selected Findings (Bulletin)
NCJ 255090
This bulletin reports findings from OJJDP’s biennial survey of the nation’s public and private juvenile residential facilities and characterizes facilities by ownership and operation, type, size, security features, screening practices, and services provided. The 1,510 facilities covered by the 2018 census housed 37,529 juvenile offenders younger than age 21, the lowest population recorded since 1975. The share of locally operated facilities has increased steadily since 2000, while the proportion of privately operated facilities has dropped significantly.
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Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2018 (Fact Sheet)
NCJ 254792
The findings in this fact sheet are based on data from more than 2,500 courts with jurisdiction over 87 percent of the nation’s juvenile population. The authors characterize juvenile courts’ delinquency caseload by gender, race, age, likelihood of detention, intake decision, and outcome of adjudication and disposition. In 2018, courts handled 744,500 delinquency cases that involved juveniles charged with criminal law violations, a 5-percent drop from 2017 and a 55-percent drop from 2005. From 2014 to 2018, the number of juvenile court cases for most offenses declined; however, the number involving criminal homicide and motor vehicle theft increased significantly during that period.
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Delinquency Cases Waived to Criminal Court, 2018 (Fact Sheet)
NCJ 255114
This fact sheet characterizes juvenile delinquency cases judicially waived to criminal court by gender, race, age, and type of offense. The number of delinquency cases waived to criminal court has dropped steadily since 1994 due to the decline in juvenile crime as well as the expansion of laws allowing more cases to bypass the juvenile court system for filing directly in criminal court. After peaking at 13,200 in 1994, the number of cases waived to criminal court fell to 3,600 in 2018.
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