Juvenile Arrests 19752005

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Juvenile Arrests 1975-2005 A 30-Year
Retrospective of Trends in Serious Juvenile Crime
According to National Arrest Estimates Calculated
with Data from the FBIs Uniform Crime Reporting
Program October 2005 Jeffrey A. Butts,
Ph.D. Chapin Hall Center for Children University
of Chicago
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Data Source and Methods The national arrest
estimates presented here (as well as the per
capita rates based upon those estimates) were
calculated by Chapin Hall Center for Children at
the University of Chicago using data released in
September 2005 by the Uniform Crime Reporting
Program (UCR) of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI). The FBI collects annual
information on arrests made by law enforcement
agencies throughout the United States. Data are
collected from jurisdictions containing a
majority of the U.S. population, typically
between 60 and 90 percent of residents
nationwide. The primary publication of UCR data,
Crime in the United States, is based upon data
from those police agencies able to participate
fully in the UCR program each year. Full
participation requires that agencies submit their
data to the FBI on time and their data must cover
all arrests for a minimum number of months during
the year. In 2005, the jurisdictions that
participated fully in the UCR program represented
73 percent of the national population. Nearly all
of the arrest statistics generated by the UCR
program are based on this sample. They are not
national estimates. The FBI calculates one
national estimate for each major offense. It does
not calculate estimates for different age groups.
To present national arrest estimates for various
groups and to calculate per capita arrest rates
for those groups, this presentation relies on the
FBIs estimate of total arrests for each major
offense. It uses the data reported by
UCR-participating jurisdictions to determine the
proportion of arrests for each offense that
involved individuals of various ages. That
proportion is then applied to the FBIs national
estimate for each offense. Arrest rates are
determined by dividing each national arrest
estimate over the appropriate population data
from the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
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National Estimates
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Rate of Arrests per 100,000
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Age-Specific Arrest Rates Multi-Year Comparison
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Murder
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Murder
Arrests per 1 00,000
Age at Arrest
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Murder
Arrests per 1 00,000
Age at Arrest
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Murder
Arrests per 1 00,000
Age at Arrest
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Murder
Arrests per 1 00,000
Age at Arrest
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Violent Crime Index Offenses
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Violent Crime Index Offenses
Arrests per 1 00,000
Age at Arrest
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Violent Crime Index Offenses
Arrests per 1 00,000
Age at Arrest
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Violent Crime Index Offenses
Arrests per 1 00,000
Age at Arrest
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Violent Crime Index Offenses
Arrests per 1 00,000
Age at Arrest
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The data included in this presentation will be
analyzed in more detail in a November 2006
research report from Chapin Hall Center for
Children.
Jeffrey A. Butts, Ph.D. Research Fellow Chapin
Hall Center for Children University of
Chicago 1313 East Sixtieth Street Chicago, IL
60637 [phone] jabutts_at_uchicago.edu
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