WISCONSIN DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS - OFFENDERS RESIDENT IN WISCONSIN JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS ON JUNE 30, 1978, WITH FIVE-YEAR TRENDS FOR 1974-1978

• NCJ Number: 66732
• Author(s): W CURLEY; B INGRAM
• Date Published: 1979
• Length: 9 pages
• Corporate Author: Wisconsin Dept of Health and Social Services
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

TABLES AND A BRIEF NARRATIVE PRESENT DATA ON RESIDENTS IN WISCONSIN JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS ON JUNE 30, 1978, WITH 5-YEAR TRENDS FOR 1974-78.

Abstract

ON JUNE 30, 1978, THERE WERE 598 JUVENILE RESIDENTS IN WISCONSIN JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES; THESE TOTALS DO NOT INCLUDE THE 106 JUVENILES WHO WERE ON FURLOUGH ON THAT DATE. THE POPULATION OF JUVENILE MALES DECLINED BY 24.8 PERCENT AND OF JUVENILE FEMALES BY 3.7 PERCENT FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR. THE PROPORTION OF WHITE JUVENILES, EXCLUDING THOSE OF MEXICAN ORIGIN, ROSE TO 68.4 PERCENT AND THE PROPORTION OF JUVENILE MALES WHO HAD SPENT LESS THAN 3 MONTHS IN INSTITUTIONS ROSE TO A 5-YEAR HIGH OF 43 PERCENT. THE PROPORTION OF NEWLY COMMITTED GIRLS ROSE BY MORE THAN 18 PERCENTAGE POINTS WHILE THE PERCENTAGE OF THOSE RETURNED FOR REPLACEMENT OR MEDICAL CARE DROPPED FROM 25 PERCENT TO LESS THAN 10 PERCENT. MILWAUKEE WAS THE COUNTY OF COMMITMENT FOR 39.9 PERCENT OF THE BOYS AND 25.9 PERCENT OF THE GIRLS ON JUNE 30, 1978. TABLES CONTAIN DATA ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF RESIDENTS IN JUVENILE INSTITUTIONS BY INSTITUTION AND SEX (I.E., TYPE OF ADMISSION, RACE, AGE, TIME IN INSTITUTION, AND COUNTY OF COMMITMENT). (WJR)