This Bulletin was written by Anne L. Stahl, Manager of Data Collection for the National Juvenile Court Data Archive project of the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ). It summarizes Juvenile Court Statistics 1996 (Stahl, A.L., Sickmund, M., Finnegan, T.A., Snyder, H.N., Poole, R.S., and Tierney, N., forthcoming). The work was supported by funds provided to the National Juvenile Court Data Archive by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Joseph Moone and Janet Chiancone served as OJJDP Program Managers for the Archive project. Both OJJDP and NCJJ gratefully acknowledge the efforts of the many State and local agencies that contribute data to the Archive. Their cooperation with requests for data and documentation makes this work possible.