This report provides the results of a technical assistance assignment conducted by the National Center for Juvenile Justice for the 5th Judicial Circuit of Missouri’s Juvenile Division. The scope of the project was to assess…
This is a brief statistical comparison of juvenile justice case flow, prepared by the National Center for Juvenile Justice at the request of the federal prosecutor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Download Publication
This is the 2002 annual report of the National Center for Juvenile Justice. It summarizes the Center’s key work projects for the year. Download Publication
This paper examines the pretrial detention of juveniles in County X located in a northeastern state… (N=642)… adjudicated delinquent in the summer of 2000… Several variables were found to be significant in increasing the odds…
This article offers a national overview on the well-being of children involved with the child welfare system. ‘Findings are based on data from the 1997 and 1999 National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF), a nationally…
‘The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) established a goal of one year from removal to permanence for all children taken into protective custody. When the Family Court of Mecklenburg County (Charlotte), N.C.,…
‘The study involved 70 juveniles assigned to residential units at a juvenile detention facility. Juveniles were administered a written questionnaire that requested both quantitative and qualitative responses to items related to juveniles’ perceived needs and…
This OJJDP Fact Sheet provides statistical information about the use of detention in delinquency caseloads handled by juvenile courts between 1989 and 1998. Specifically,it examines national trends in the number of delinquency cases involving detention,…
This two page Fact Sheet presents findings from the second wave of data collection for the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP). The census collected individual-level data on residents who were less than 21…
Presents data on juvenile delinquency cases that resulted in out-of-home placement between 1989 and 1998. This Fact Sheet, which is based on the Report Juvenile Court Statistics, 1998, includes the numbers of such cases and…
Reports on the nature of robbery cases handled by juvenile courts between 1989 and 1998, with data based on the OJJDP report, Juvenile Court Statistics 1998. Download Publication
Discusses the burglary caseload handled by juvenile courts between 1989 and 1998. This Fact Sheet is based on the Report Juvenile Court Statistics 1998, which derives its national estimates from data contributed by nearly 2,100…