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

Related Links

These links provide direct access to other Web-based resources for statistics related to offending by youth. A brief description of each link is included.

Bureau of Justice Statistics. Comprehensive access to statistics on crime, victimization, correctional and probation populations, and recidivsm. Includes online versions of all BJS publications and a variety of data analysis tools.

FBI Uniform Crime Reports. National statistics on crime and victims from the FBI's UCR program.

Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth. Access to data from an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of secondary school students, college students, and young adults. Includes detailed trend data on drug use.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. Data files from federal agencies, state agencies, and investigator-initiated research projects, archived and made available to users for secondary statistical analysis. Frequently accessed files include the National Crime Victimization Survey, the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, the FBI's UCR Program (national and county-level data) and National Incident-Based Reporting System, and Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth.

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Access to data from the U.S. Department of Labor's ongoing survey of a nationally representative sample of 9,000 youth. Although the survey focuses on labor market and educational experiences, it also provides detailed information on other topics such as deviant and delinquent behavior, including school violations, theft offenses, and use of alcohol and drugs.