Melissa Sickmund

This Fact Sheet presents statistics on delinquency cases processed in U.S. juvenile courts in 2005. Comparative statistics are given for public order offense cases, person offense cases, drug law violations, and property offenses. Additionally, the numbers are broken out by gender, race, age, use of detention, intake decisions, waiver to criminal court, and adjudication and disposition. The Fact Sheet includes figures, graphs, and a case flow chart. This Fact Sheet is based on the …

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.

Sarah Livsey

Presents statistics on delinquency cases resulting in probation in 2005. This Fact Sheet is based on the report Juvenile Court Statistics 2005.

Anne Stahl

Presents statistics on delinquency cases processed between 1995 and 2004 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. The number of delinquency cases handled by juvenile courts decreased 7 percent between 1995 and 2004. During this period, public order offense cases increased 41 percent, drug law violation cases increased 19 percent, person offenses increased 2 percent, and property offense cases decreased 33 percent. The data used in the analysis were contributed to the National Juvenile Court Data …

Anne Stahl

Provides data on delinquency cases involving drug offenses handled between 1985 and 2004 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. In 2004, U.S. juvenile courts handled an estimated 193,700 delinquency cases in which a drug offense was the most serious charge.

Melissa Sickmund, Charles Puzzanchera

Describes delinquency cases handled between 1985 and 2005 and petitioned status offense cases handled between 1995 and 2005 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. Courts with juvenile jurisdiction may handle a variety of matters, including child abuse and neglect, traffic violations, child support, and adoptions. This OJJDP Report, the 77th report in the Juvenile Court Statistics series, focuses on cases involving juveniles charged with law violations (delinquency or status offenses). The data used in the …

Howard Snyder, Anne Stahl, Charles Puzzanchera, Sarah Livsey, Anthony Sladky, Nancy Tierney, Terrence Finnegan

Describes delinquency cases handled between 1985 and 2004 and petitioned status offense cases handled between 1995 and 2004 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. Courts with juvenile jurisdiction may handle a variety of matters, including child abuse and neglect, traffic violations, child support, and adoptions. This OJJDP Report, the 76th report in the Juvenile Court Statistics series, focuses on cases involving juveniles charged with law violations (delinquency or status offenses). The data used in the …

Anne Stahl

This Fact Sheet presents statistics on delinquency cases processed by juvenile courts in 2002. The number of delinquency cases handled by juvenile courts decreased 11 percent between 1997 and 2002. During this time, the number of person offense cases decreased 2 percent, property offense cases decreased 27 percent, drug law violation cases increased 1 percent, and public order offense cases increased 7 percent.

Sarah Livsey

This fact sheet presents summary information on the juvenile delinquency probation caseload for the period 1985 through 2002. The findings presented in this report were drawn from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive. Data included estimates from over 2,100 jurisdictions containing 75 percent of the U.S. juvenile population.

Howard Snyder, Anne Stahl, Charles Puzzanchera, Anthony Sladky, Nancy Tierney, Terrence Finnegan

Published annually since 1926, Juvenile Court Statistics presents national estimates and detailed descriptions of the delinquency and status offense cases processed by juvenile courts. The text, figures, and tables describe the demographic characteristics of the juvenile's sources of referral, offenses, case processing characteristics, and case dispositions. Each report also contains an extensive listing of the volume of cases handled annually by individual jurisdictions.