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Juvenile court statistics

Violent Crime Cases in Juvenile Court, 2021

This fact sheet presents estimates of juvenile violent crime cases based on data from more than 2,300 courts with jurisdiction over 83% of the youth population age 10 through the upper age of original juvenile court jurisdiction in each state in 2021.

Access the Juvenile Court Statistics 2022 Report

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The National Center for Juvenile Justice has released "Juvenile Court Statistics 2022." This report describes delinquency and petitioned status offense cases handled in U.S. courts with jurisdiction over juvenile populations between 2005 and 2022.

Characteristics are presented on an estimated 549,500 delinquency cases and 62,000 petitioned status offense cases handled in 2022. The report also tracks caseload trends from 2005 to 2022. Data include...