Juvenile Cases Transferred to Adult Courts

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Juvenile Cases Transferred to Adult Courts

• OJJDP Fact Sheet
• February 2000

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Delinquency Cases Waived
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Data From Research
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Delinquency Cases Waived to Criminal Court, 1988
to 1997

• For every 1,000 formally handled delinquency
  cases, 8 were waived to criminal court.
• Prior to 1992 more property offenders were waived
  to adult court than person offenders, since then
  the numbers have reversed.
• The offense characteristics of waived cases
  varied by the race of the offender.
• All states have mechanisms to handle juvenile in
  criminal court.

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