NCJ Number
193498
Date Published
February 2002
Length
8 pages
Annotation
This report presents juvenile corrections statistics and juvenile offender information for West Virginia for 2000.
Abstract
The juveniles committed to West Virginia juvenile correctional facilities in 2000 amounted to 0.09 percent of the State’s juveniles 10- to 17-years-old. The average length of stay of the 168 juveniles released from juvenile correctional facilities in 2000 was 9.9 months. Juveniles committed in 2000 ranged from 13- to 19-years-old; only 6.4 percent were under age 15. A total of 88.9 percent were male; 16.4 percent were nonwhite, although the State’s juvenile population was only 5.8 percent nonwhite. West Virginia had a lower incarceration rate for juveniles except for two other States where the upper age limit for juvenile court jurisdiction was 17-years-old, only Hawaii, and Vermont had lower juvenile incarceration rates. Property offenses comprised over one third of all offenses charged to juveniles committed in 2000; person offenses, particularly assault/battery, were the second most common type of offense charged. The average daily population of juveniles in West Virginia juvenile correctional facilities during 2000 was 112. Figures, table, and 4 references