The decline in juvenile court delinquency caseloads since the mid-1990s is the most substantial decline since 1960
OJJDP has recently released the following fact sheets providing data derived from the report Juvenile Court Statistics 2005.
Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2005 provides statistics on delinquency cases handled in U.S. juvenile courts between 1985 and 2005. This fact sheet indicates that Juvenile courts handled 46 percent more cases in 2005 than in 1985.
Delinquency Cases Waived to Criminal Court, 2005 offers statistics on petitioned delinquency cases waived to criminal court between 1985 and 2005. According to this fact sheet, since 1994, the number of cases judicially waived declined 47 percent (6,900 cases in 2005).
Juvenile Delinquency Probation Caseload, 2005 offers statistics on delinquency cases resulting in probation in 2005. The fact sheet shows that property offense cases made up the greatest proportion of the probation caseload.
Person Offense Cases in Juvenile Court, 2005 presents statistics on person offense cases processed by juvenile courts in 2005. Person offense cases accounted for 25 percent of all delinquency cases in 2005.
Concurrent jurisdiction provisions vary considerably with respect to minimum age and offense criteria. [Read more]
As with transfer laws, state's juvenile court blended sentencing provisions are limited by age and offense criteria. [Read more]
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.
