• From the mid-1980s to the peak in 1993, the juvenile arrest rate for murder more than doubled.
• Then, the juvenile arrest rate for murder declined through the mid-2000s, reaching a level in 2004 that was 75% less than the 1993 peak.
• The growth in the juvenile murder arrest rate that began in 2004 was reversed in the last 3 years as the rate fell 23% since 2007, resting at a level that was 77% below its 1993 peak.

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Internet Citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available:
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05202. December 17, 2012.

Adapted from Puzzanchera, C. and Adams, B. (2012). Juvenile Arrests 2009. Washington, D.C.: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

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