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10/30/18
Report
Criminological Highlights: Children and Youth, Volume 6 Issue 1

Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published. Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting…

10/30/18
Report
Criminological Highlights: Children and Youth, Volume 5 Issue 3

Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published. Does employment reduce offending for ‘high risk’ youths? Do transfers to adult court hurt…

10/30/18
Report
5 Ways Law Enforcement Agencies Can Use Data on Juveniles

Law enforcement agencies are a valuable and often overlooked partner in juvenile justice systems. This brief, 5 Ways Law Enforcement Agencies Can Use Data on Juveniles, highlights practical examples of how law enforcement agencies can…

10/30/18
Report
5 Ways Juvenile Probation Administrators Can Use Data

This brief, 5 Ways Juvenile Probation Administrators Can Use Data, provides specific examples of how juvenile probation administrators can use aggregate data to improve practices and monitor system improvements. It is the third in a…

10/30/18
Report
Spotlight on Girls in the Juvenile Justice System

NCJJ and OJJDP recently introduced a Data Snapshot series to disseminate current research about youth in the juvenile justice system. Each one-page Snapshot focuses on a specific topic (e.g., juveniles in residential placement, characteristics of…

10/30/18
Report
Criminological Highlights: Children and Youth, Volume 6 Issue 2

Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published. Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the…

10/29/18
Report
Characteristics of Delinquency Cases Handled in Juvenile Court in…

NCJJ and OJJDP recently introduced a Data Snapshot series to disseminate current research about youth in the juvenile justice system. Each one-page Snapshot focuses on a specific topic (e.g., juveniles in residential placement, characteristics of…

10/29/18
Report
Characteristics of Delinquency Cases Handled in Juvenile Court in…

NCJJ and OJJDP recently introduced a Data Snapshot series to disseminate current research about youth in the juvenile justice system. Each one-page Snapshot focuses on a specific topic (e.g., juveniles in residential placement, characteristics of…

10/29/18
Report
Juveniles on Formal Probation, 2012

This bulletin summarizes findings from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP) Census of Juveniles on Probation, which was conducted in 2012 and is based on a one-day count of youth under formal…

10/29/18
Report
Juvenile Court Statistics 2016

Juvenile Court Statistics 2016 draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile 850,500 delinquency cases and 94,700 petitioned status offense cases handled in 2016 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction.…

10/24/18
Report
Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2014

This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Fact Sheet presents statistics on delinquency cases that U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction processed for public order, person, and property offenses and drug law violations between…

10/24/18
Report
Juveniles in Residential Placement, 2015

This bulletin presents information from the 2015 Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, a biennial survey of public and private juvenile residential facilities that the U.S. Census Bureau conducted and OJJDP sponsored. The data indicates…