Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1997 Update on Violence

• NCJ Number: 165703
• Author(s): Melissa Sickmund; Howard N. Snyder; Eileen Poe-Yamagata
• Date Published: August 1997
• Length: 55 pages
• Grant Number(s): 95-JN-FX-K008
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
• Corporate Author: National Ctr for Juvenile Justice
• Sale Source: NCJRS Photocopy Services; Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse/NCJRS
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: OJJDP Statistics Summary

Annotation

This statistical summary presents raw data needed to address the problems of juvenile crime and victimization.

Abstract

The report includes statistical data and discussion concerning: (1) Victims (homicide victims; suicide; victimization; abuse and neglect); (2) Offenders (homicide offenders; high school students and weapons; victim reports of juvenile offenders; juvenile arrests; violent crime arrest trends; offense-specific arrest and clearance trends; state and county violent crime arrest trends; juvenile court careers; time of day; gun use; state legislatures on juvenile crime; juvenile transfers to criminal court; trying juveniles as adults; judicial waiver; sentencing serious and violent juvenile offenders; violent juvenile court cases; Canadian juvenile violent crime); and (3) Corrections (custody population; state custody populations; crowding in custody facilities; minority overrepresentation in custody facilities; youth held in adult jails; youth and the death penalty). Figures, tables, sources