NCJ Number
227375
Date Published
2008
Length
80 pages
Annotation
This report provides an overview of juvenile court dispositions in Pennsylvania during 2007, and summarizes juvenile court statistical data provided by county juvenile probation departments.
Abstract
This report is a compilation of data on juvenile court dispositions from the juvenile probation departments of the State of Pennsylvania for 2007. Highlights of the report include: (1) the 45,573 delinquency dispositions in Pennsylvania in 2007 represent a 3.7 percent increase from 2006; (2) consent decree became the most frequently utilized disposition, representing 18.4 percent of all delinquency dispositions followed by probation, informal adjustment, fines/costs, complaint withdrawn, placement, and warned/counseled/case closed; (3) delinquency placements to private institutions, including those resulting from disposition reviews, comprised 35.9 percent of the 7,525 total delinquency placements in 2007; (4) juvenile court dispositions continue to primarily involve males with males accounting for 76.2 percent of all juvenile court dispositions, 81.8 percent of probation dispositions, 87.9 percent of dispositions involving placement, and 97.5 percent of transfers to criminal court; (5) the majority of the 45,573 delinquency dispositions involved White youth (56.7 percent) followed by African-Americans; (6) 55.9 percent of delinquency dispositions reported a family status of the biological parents, never married or divorced, while 18.9 reported a family status of the biological parents, married; (7) 44.3 percent of delinquency dispositions reported the juvenile living with only the mother, while 18.9 percent reported the juvenile living with both parents; and (8) 26.3 percent of the 45,573 delinquency dispositions involved 17 year olds followed by 16 and 15 year olds. Tables, charts, and figures