West Virginia Juvenile Probation Annual Report 1998

• NCJ Number: 197483
• Author(s): Tammy Collins
• Date Published: October 1999
• Length: 8 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
• Corporate Author: West Virginia Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Ctr
• Sale Source: West Virginia Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Ctr
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Downloaded October 28, 2002

Annotation

This is the 1998 Annual Report on the status of West Virginia's juvenile probation.

Abstract

Almost 3 out of every 100 West Virginia juveniles 10- to 17-years-old were involved in the State's juvenile probation system in 1998. They were charged with committing 9,557 offenses causing the filing of 7,521 juvenile complaints. This report describes the juveniles, summarizes the offenses charged, and reviews case dispositions. The data were obtained from the 1998 juvenile justice database report form (JJDB) completed by all juvenile probation officers across the State on cases taken in or disposed of in 1998. The JJDB was created to provide systematic statistical information on juvenile offenders and offenses. One limitation of this report is that it contains only information reported by probation. Many other State and local agencies and organizations also deal directly with juvenile offenders. They include law enforcement; juvenile detention and corrections; community programs; education; child shelters; and the Department of Health and Human Resources. The report describes offenders' gender and race, education, living situation, home county, type of offense, and case disposition. Figures