Juvenile statistics

OJJDP and the National Institute of Justice have released Patterns of Juvenile Court Referrals of Youth Born in 2000. The bulletin describes the patterns of juvenile court referrals of more than 160,000 youth born in 2000 from 903 selected United States counties. 

Using data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, the bulletin focuses on the demographic and case processing characteristics of youth referred...

OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book with a new Data Snapshot that shows the decline of youth arrests through 2020. The snapshot draws on national arrest estimates from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The data show the number of arrests involving youth fell 84 percent between 1996 and 2020. The data also show the number of youth arrests for violent crime in 2020 was one-third the...

OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book  with  a new  Data Snapshot on teen dating violence. The snapshot draws on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System to document the trends and characteristics of exposure to dating violence reported by high school students. The data show the prevalence of physical and sexual dating violence reported by students declined overall between...

OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book (SBB):

• Easy Access to the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports data analysis tool has been updated to include data through 2018. 
• FAQs describing the number, demographics, weapon use, and victim-offender relationship of juvenile homicide victims and juvenile homicide offenders have been updated through 2018. 
• Easy Access to Juvenile Populations and related FAQs in the Juvenile Population Characteristics and Hispanic...

The National Center for Juvenile Justice has released "Juvenile Court Statistics 2018." The report draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, funded by OJJDP and managed by the National Institute of Justice. This report describes delinquency cases and petitioned status offense cases that courts with juvenile jurisdiction processed in 2018 and presents trends since 2005. In 2018, courts with juvenile...

OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book to include a new Data Snapshot on teen dating violence. The Data Snapshot draws on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System to document the trends and characteristics of dating violence reported by high school students.

Developed for OJJDP by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, the research division of the National Council...