NCJ Number
311684
Date Published
October 1996
Length
2 pages
Abstract
This Fact Sheet is based on the report, Juvenile Court Statistics 1994. In 1994 U.S. juvenile courts handled an estimated 336,100 delinquency cases in which the most serious charge was an offense against a person. Person offenses include assault, robbery, rape, and homicide. The 1994 person offense caseload was 93% greater than in 1985. Person offense cases accounted for 22% of all delinquency cases in 1994, compared with 16% in 1985. The number of person offense cases disposed by juvenile courts in 1994 was equivalent to 12.1 cases for every 1,000 juveniles in the United States age 10 or over and potentially under the jurisdiction of a juvenile court in the State where the offense was committed.
Date Published: October 1, 1996