• After a period of substantial growth through the 1990s, the male juvenile arrest rate for drug abuse violations generally declined after 1996 while the female rate remained relatively stable.
• By 2010, the drug abuse arrest rate for males declined 29% from its 1996 peak, while the rate for females was down 15% from its 2004 peak. For both groups, the arrest rates in 2010 were considerably above the rates in 1980 (41% for both males and females).
• In 2010, the male drug arrest rate was about five times the female rate.

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Internet Citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available:
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05244. 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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