Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1997 Update on Violence

Juvenile Offenders and Victims:
1997 Update on Violence -- Statistics Summary

Melissa Sickmund
Howard N. Snyder
Eileen Poe-Yamagata
National Center for Juvenile Justice

August 1997

Shay Bilchik, Administrator
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Table of Contents

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Foreword

Victims

Offenders

Corrections

Sources

This document was prepared by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, the research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and was supported by cooperative agreement #95-JN-FX-K008 with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

Points of view or opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Suggested citation: Sickmund, Melissa, Snyder, Howard N., and Poe-Yamagata, Eileen. (1997). Juvenile offenders and victims: 1997 update on violence. Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office for Victims of Crime.

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1997 Update on Violence

NCJ 165703