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Juvenile Arrests 1976-2006 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 September 28, 2007 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 on
September 24, 2007 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. For 2006, the jurisdictions that
participated fully in the UCR program represented
72 percent of the national population. Nearly all
of the arrest statistics generated by the UCR
program are based on this sample. The FBI
calculates just one national estimate for each
major offense. It does not calculate national
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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Index Offenses
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Up 8 since 2002, still 33 lower than 1994.
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Up 34 since 2002
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Up 31 since 2002
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Rate of Arrests per 100,000 Juveniles vs. Adults
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A common comparison, but is it misleading?
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Comparing juveniles to all adults is misleading.
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Rate of Arrests per 100,000by Age Groups
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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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