Juvenile Court Statistics 1992

• NCJ Number: 154168
• Author(s): J A Butts; H N Snyder; T A Finnegan; A L Aughenbaugh; N J Tierney; D P Sullivan; R S Poole
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 108 pages
• Grant Number(s): 92-JN-CX-0001
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
• Sale Source: National Ctr for Juvenile Justice; National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This report describes the delinquency and status offense cases handled between 1988 and 1992 by US courts with juvenile jurisdiction.

Abstract

The report presents national estimates of petitioned and nonpetitioned delinquency cases handled by courts with juvenile jurisdiction, and national estimates of petitioned (formally processed) status offense cases. Together, these sections provide a detailed national portrait of juvenile court cases, including the offenses involved, sources of referral, detention practices, and dispositions ordered. The report includes a brief description of the statistical procedure used to generate these estimates; further information about procedure is available upon request from the Archive. Few terms in the field of juvenile justice have widely accepted definitions. The terminology used in this report has been developed to communicate the findings of the work as precisely as possible without sacrificing their applicability to multiple jurisdictions. There is a complete list, by county, of the number of delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases handled by juvenile courts in 1992. Tables, figures, glossary, appendix