Delinquency Cases Waived to Criminal Court, 2018 (NCJ 255114) January 2021 Fact Sheet OJJDP National Report Series 4 page(s) This fact sheet is based on the OJJDP-sponsored report, Juvenile Court Statistics 2018, and was developed with support from NIJ. It presents national estimates of cases waived by juvenile court judges to be handled by criminal courts from 1985 through 2018. In 2018, juvenile courts in the United States handled 744,500 delinquency cases. PDF