The person offense case rate declined 69% between 2005 and 2021.[Read more]
The case rate for drug offenses declined 78% between the 1997 peak and 2021 - from 6.48 to 1.43 cases per 1,000 youth under juvenile court jurisdiction.[Read more]
Male and female delinquency case rates declined steadily between 2008 and 2021.
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Drug offense case rates for males and females have declined considerably.
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Between 2005 and 2021, the person offense case rate decreased most for Asian/NHPI youth (74%), followed by Black youth (65%), Hispanic youth (64%), white youth (57%), and American Indian youth (46%).
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Across race/ethnicity groups, drug offense case rates declined between 2005 and 2021.[Read more]
The relative decline in the petitioned status offense case rate was about the same for males (74%) and females (73%) between 2005 and 2021.
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Since 2005, the relative decline in petitioned curfew violation case rates was about the same for males (88%) and females (86%).
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Petitioned runaway case rates decreased for considerably for each race/ethnicity group since 2005.
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Across race/ethnicity groups, petitioned curfew violation case rates in 2021 were well below the levels in 2005.
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In 2021, courts with juvenile jurisdiction disposed approximately 437,300 delinquency cases, the fewest number of cases handled since the early 1960s.[Read more]
Delinquency case rates generally increase with the age of the youth; however, within offense categories, there are variations in the pattern of age-specific case rates.[Read more]
Females accounted for over one-fourth (27%) of the 437,300 delinquency cases handled by juvenile courts in 2021, youth under age 16 accounted for 53% of all cases, and white youth accounted for 44% of all cases.[Read more]
Since 2005, the proportion of cases involving detention increased for property offense and public order offense cases but declined for drug offense cases.[Read more]
The proportion of formally handled cases that did not result in a delinquency adjudication increased between 1985 and 2021.[Read more]
In 2021, an estimated 51,500 petitioned status offense cases were handled in juvenile court.[Read more]
Females accounted for 45% of the estimated 51,500 petitioned status offense cases handled by juvenile courts in 2021, youth under age 16 accounted for 62%, and white youth accounted for 60%.[Read more]
Since 2005, truancy cases were least likely to involve detention.[Read more]
While the use of informal sanctions remained relatively stable between 2005 and 2021, a larger proportion of petitioned status offense cases were dismissed in 2021 (52.1%) than in 2005 (34.8%).[Read more]
