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OJJDP News @ a Glance, February 2024

The February newsletter highlights a new OJJDP-funded center intended to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in youth justice, the benefits of youth diversion programs, and an effort to help parents protect their children from financial sextortion.

Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2020: Selected Findings

Nationally, 25,014 youth charged with or adjudicated for an offense were held in 1,323 residential placement facilities on October 28, 2020.

Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2020

In 2020, juvenile courts in the United States handled 508,400 delinquency cases that involved youth charged with criminal law violations, 28% less than the number of cases handled in 2019. 

Delinquency Cases Waived to Criminal Court, 2020

The number of delinquency cases judicially waived peaked in 1994 at 13,000 cases, more than double the number of cases waived in 1985. Judicially waived delinquency cases decreased 77% to its lowest level in 2020, when juvenile courts waived an estimated 3,000 delinquency cases.

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OJJDP Annual Reports

Annual Reports describe the Office's activities in a specified fiscal year.​

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OJJDP's growing multimedia collection includes updates from OJJDP Administrator Liz Ryan, archived webinars on specific solicitations, training sessions, and more.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library
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NCJRS Virtual Library

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library contains bibliographic information and abstracts of more than 250,000 collection resources, including all known Office of Justice Programs' works.