New Fact Sheets Highlight Findings from NCJJ's Juvenile Court Statistics 2005 report
Article Date: June 24, 2009
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OJJDP recently released four Fact Sheets summarizing findings from Juvenile Court Statistics 2005, the 77th report in the series.
Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Courts, 2005 presents highlights from the entire report such as: The 8 years of decline in juvenile court delinquency caseloads since 1997 is the most substantial decline since 1960.
Delinquency Cases Waived to Criminal Court, 2005 presents the latest national estimates of judicial waivers. The number of cases waived to criminal court peaked in 1994 and then fell to the levels of the mid-1980s. The drop in juvenile violent crime has driven much of this decline, but part of the fall in judicial waivers is due to the expansion of non-judicial transfer laws—as a result, many cases that might have been subject to waiver proceedings in previous years were undoubtedly filed directly in criminal court, bypassing the juvenile court altogether.
Person Offense Cases in Juvenile Court, 2005 profiles the estimated 429,500 delinquency cases in which the most serious charge was an offense against a person.
Juvenile Delinquency Probation Caseload, 2005 describes delinquency cases that received probation as the most severe disposition. Probation was ordered in 48% of the more than 1.1 million delinquency cases that received a juvenile court sanction in 2005.
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