Juvenile Delinquency Statistics

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Juvenile Delinquency Statistics

• Made Fun Easy

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Do you know?

• Is juvenile crime increasing or decreasing?
• Are juveniles more likely to be arrested for
  serious or non-serious crimes?

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Do you know?

• What have the arrest trends been over the past 25
  years?
• What of all arrests are of juveniles under 18?
• What percentage of juvenile arrests are for
  serious crimes?

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Do you know?

• How do we get our statistics on juvenile crime?

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Do you know?

• What is the difference between arrest data and
  self-report data?
• Who are the victims of juvenile crime?
• What can victims of crime tell us?

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What are Official Statistics?

• Who collects data for the FBIs Uniform Crime
  Reports?
• What is included in the official statistics?
• What is missing from the official statistics?

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Do you know?

• Are there differences in juvenile arrest data by
  gender?
• Are there differences in juvenile arrest data by
  race?
• Are there differences in juvenile arrest data by
  ses?
• What is ses?

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Do you know?

• What is self-report data?
• Are there differences in self-report data by
  gender, race, ses?

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Do you know?

• Who are the victims of juvenile crime?
• Do most victims report crime?
• Who is most likely to report crime?
• Who is least likely to report crime?

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Do you know?

• What of crimes are cleared by arrest?
• What does cleared by arrest mean?

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Key Sources of Data

• Official Statistics
• National Crime Victimization Survey
• Self-report Data

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Trends

• Between 1980 and 1991 crime skyrocketed
• From 3.3 million crimes reported to police
• To 13.4 million

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Trends

• Crimes reported to police declined 1981-84
• But increased in 1985 and continued until 1990.
• Crime rate stabilized and declined in 90s
• Declined continued in 2000
• 20 less than in 1990!

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2003

• Official Stats 13.6 million arrests
• 2.2 m for serious offenses (Part I)
• 11.4 m for less serious (Part II)

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Juveniles Under 18

• Are 26 of the population
• 16 of violent crime arrests
• 29 of property crime arrests
• 26 of all Part I - Index (serious) crime arrests
• 16 of all arrests for all crimes

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What does the future hold in 2010?

• Almost 15 million now live in poverty and figure
  will continue to rise
• The number of juveniles in population will
  increase by 15 (9 million).
• The number at high risk (15-17) will increase by
  more than 3 million (31)

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Race Delinquency

• 40 million white youth under 18
• 9 million African American youth under 18
• 4.51

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SES Delinquency

• Black Hispanic youth are 3x as likely as white
  youth to live in poverty.
• Juvenile arrests are highest in poverty areas
• Self-report studies found ses related to official
  processing not to commission of delinquent acts.

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Gender DelinquencyMale to Female

• Violent Arrests 41
• Property Arrests 21
• Female rates increasing faster than male rates
• Girls (58) more likely than boys (42) arrested
  for running away.

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Gender Delinquencyself-report data

• Female delinquency higher than expected
• Overall pattern of delinquency for boys and girls
  similar
• BUT males more likely to be frequently
  delinquent
• Males more likely to commit serious felony-type
  acts

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Gender Delinquency1994-2004

• Male arrests decreased 22
• Female arrests increased 12
• Male violent arrests decreased 33
• Female violent arrests decreased 2