Statistical Briefing Book

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Serving Children, Families, and Communities

Juvenile Arrest Rates for
All Crimes, 1980-2007

Arrests per 100,000 juveniles ages 10-17, 1980-2007

The Statistical Briefing Book (SBB) has a new look that complements the OJJDP Web site. On this site you can easily find comprehensive statistical information on juvenile offending, victimization of juveniles, and involvement of youth in the juvenile justice system. SBB offers the following current information:

Juvenile Arrests 2007 summarizes 2007 juvenile crime and arrest data reported by local law enforcement agencies and cited in the FBI’s “Crime in the United States 2007.”

Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2004: Selected Findings collects information about the facilities in which juvenile offenders are held.

Characteristics of Juvenile Suicide in Confinement discusses the results of a survey on juvenile suicides occurring in confinement between 1995 and 1999.

Easy Access to FBI Arrest Statistics includes data for 2006.

Frequently Asked Questions were updated for Law Enforcement and Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Population Characteristics, and Juveniles in Corrections.

Probation was ordered in 48% of the more than 1.1 million delinquency cases that received a juvenile court sanction in 2005. [Read more]

Increases in the number of adjudicated cases ordered to formal probation occurred in all four offense categories, with drug offense cases showing the sharpest increase between 1985 and 2005. [Read more]

Learn more about juveniles on probation.

Data analysis and dissemination tools available through the Statistical Briefing Book give users quick and easy access to detailed statistics on a variety of juvenile justice topics. These tools allow users to create national, state, and county tables on juvenile populations, arrests, court cases, and custody populations.

Learn more about OJJDP's data analysis tools.