Statistical Briefing Book

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Serving Children, Families, and Communities

Recent updates to the Statistical Briefing Book include:

Juvenile Court Statistics 2008

Easy Access to Juvenile Populations: updated to include data through 2010. Users can access National, State, and County level population data detailed by age, sex, race, and ethnicity. Users can create population profiles for a single jurisdiction or create State Comparison or County Comparison tables.
Easy Access to the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports: updated to include data through 2009. Users can access to more than twenty years of national and State data on homicide victims and known homicide offenders, including information on the age, sex, and race of victims and offenders, the victim-offender relationship, and the type of weapon used.
Easy Access to State and County Juvenile Court Case Counts: updated to include State and county juvenile court case counts for delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases between 1997 and 2008.
Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement: updated to include data through 2010. Users can perform custom analysis of national data on the characteristics of youth held in residential placement facilities, including detailed information about the youth's age, sex, race/ethnicity, placement status, length of stay, and most serious offense and view state comparison tables describing youth in residential placement facilities.
Juvenile Court Statistics 2008 draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile more than 1.6 million delinquency cases handled in 2008 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction.

Concurrent jurisdiction provisions vary considerably with respect to minimum age and offense criteria. [Read more]

As with transfer laws, state's juvenile court blended sentencing provisions are limited by age and offense criteria. [Read more]

Learn more about juvenile justice system structure & process.

Data analysis and dissemination tools available through the Statistical Briefing Book give users quick and easy access to detailed statistics on a variety of juvenile justice topics. These tools allow users to create national, state, and county tables on juvenile populations, arrests, court cases, and custody populations.

Learn more about OJJDP's data analysis tools.