Benjamin Adams, Sean Addie

This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Fact Sheet presents statistics on petitioned delinquency cases waived to criminal court between 1985 and 2009. The number of delinquency cases judicially waived peaked in 1994 at 13,800 cases, which represented an 90 percent increase over the number of cases waived in 1985 (7,200). In 2009, juvenile courts waived an estimated 7,600 delinquency cases, 45 percent fewer cases than in 1994. This Fact Sheet is based …

Benjamin Adams, Sean Addie

This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Fact Sheet presents statistics on petitioned delinquency cases waived to criminal court between 1985 and 2008. The number of delinquency cases judicially waived peaked in 1994 at 13,700 cases, which represented an 90 percent increase over the number of cases waived in 1985 (7,200). In 2008, juvenile courts waived an estimated 8,900 delinquency cases, 35 percent fewer cases than in 1994. This Fact Sheet is based …

Benjamin Adams, Sean Addie

Presents statistics on petitioned delinquency cases waived to criminal court between 1985 and 2007. The number of delinquency cases judicially waived peaked in 1994 at 13,100 cases, which represented an 81-percent increase over the number of cases waived in 1985 (7,200). Since 1994, the number of cases judicially waived declined 35 percent (8,500 cases in 2007). This Fact Sheet is based on the report Juvenile Court Statistics 2006-2007.

Benjamin Adams, Sean Addie

Presents statistics on petitioned delinquency cases waived to criminal court between 1985 and 2005. The number of delinquency cases judicially waived peaked in 1994 at 13,000 cases, which represented an 80-percent increase over the number of cases waived in 1985 (7,200). Since 1994, the number of cases judicially waived declined 47 percent (6,900 cases in 2005). This Fact Sheet is based on the report Juvenile Court Statistics 2005.

Charles Puzzanchera

This Fact Sheet presents estimates of the number of cases transferred from juvenile court to criminal court through the judicial waiver mechanism between 1990 and 1999. Fifty-seven percent of delinquency cases handled in 1999 were handled formally; that is, a petition was filed requesting an adjudication or waiver hearing. This Fact Sheet is based on the forthcoming Report Juvenile Court Statistics 1999.

Charles Puzzanchera

This Fact Sheet presents estimates of the number of cases transferred from juvenile court to criminal court through the judicial waiver mechanism between 1989 and 1998. These estimates are based on data from nearly 2,100 jurisdictions representing almost 70 percent of the U.S. juvenile population (youth age 10 through the upper age of original juvenile court jurisdiction in each State).

Charles Puzzanchera

Presents estimates of the number of cases transferred from juvenile court to criminal court through judicial waiver between 1988 and 1997. In 1997, U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction handled nearly 1.8 million delinquency cases. More than half of these cases were handled formally (that is, a petition was filed requesting an adjudication or waiver hearing). In 1997, waivers to criminal court represented less than 1 percent of the formally processed delinquency caseload.

Anne Stahl

Presents data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive on cases transferred from juvenile court to criminal court via judicial waiver between 1987 and 1996. The profile of cases waived to criminal court changed considerably between 1987 and 1996. Prior to 1992, more property offense cases than person offense cases were waived. In 1996, although waived person offense cases (43 percent) still outnumbered property offense cases (37 percent), the gap had closed somewhat. From 1989 …

Jeffrey Butts

This Fact Sheet presents data from NCJJ's National Juvenile Court Data Archive on cases waived by juvenile court judges from 1985 through 1994. This Fact Sheet is based on the NCJJ report, Juvenile Court Statistics 1994.

Sarah Hockenberry, Charles Puzzanchera

OJJDP has released Delinquency Cases Involving Hispanic Youth, 2013. While the Hispanic youth population in the United States continues to grow, little is known about the volume and nature of delinquency cases involving Hispanic youth. This bulletin helps address this critical information need. The bulletin is based on sample data reported to the National Juvenile Court Data Archive from more than 1,200 counties with jurisdiction over 75% of the U.S. Hispanic youth population at risk …