This Data Snapshot focuses on the characteristics of arrests of older juveniles (ages 15 to 17) and young adults and compares arrest rate trends between 1980 and 2017.
Judges and court professionals involved in child welfare court improvement efforts will benefit from the Judicial, Court, and Attorney Measures of Performance (JCAMP), a new tool for measuring court practices and performance in child welfare…
The National Center for Juvenile Justice has released a catalog of dependency case management reports. The catalog assembles examples NCJJ has developed in juvenile courts over the past thirty years that can be used to…
In 2021, juvenile courts in the United States handled 437,300 delinquency cases that involved youth charged with criminal law violations, 13% less than the number of cases handled in 2020. From 2005 through 2021, the…