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Juvenile Court Statistics 2013 (NCJ 249164) July 2015
Report
114 page(s)
Hockenberry, S. and Puzzanchera, C.
This report draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile nearly 1.1 million delinquency cases and 109,000 petitioned status offense cases handled in 2013 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. The report also tracks trends in delinquency cases between 1985 and 2013 and in status offense cases processed between 1995 and 2013. The data used in this report were contributed to the Archive by more than 2,400 courts with jurisdiction over 84% of the juvenile population in 2013.
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