Table Notes
| Alabama | |
| Source: | Alabama Department of Youth Services |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| Alaska | |
| Source: | Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1 . Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| Arizona | |
| Source: | Supreme Court, State of Arizona, Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | Statistical pages sent to NCJJ |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are complaints disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are complaints disposed. | |
| Arizona: Maricopa County | |
| Source: | Maricopa County Juvenile Court Center (delinquency and status cases) |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| Arkansas | |
| Source: | Administrative Office of the Courts, State of Arkansas |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. | |
| California | |
| Source: | Judicial Council of California Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | Statistical pages sent to NCJJ |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases
disposed with a petition in calendar year 1998. 2. Status figures are cases disposed with a petition in calendar year 1998. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed with a petition in calendar year 1998. The Judicial Council of California supplied dependency figures for all counties, including those counties that independently provided their automated delinquency and status offense data to NCJJ. 4. Data are incomplete for Humboldt, Monterey, Riverside, and Trinity counties due to reporting difficulties. |
| California: Alameda County | |
| Source: | Alameda County Probation Department (delinquency and status cases) |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| California: Orange County | |
| Source: | Orange County Probation Department (delinquency and status cases) |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| California: San Bernardino County | |
| Source: | San Bernardino County Probation Department (delinquency and status cases) |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| California: San Diego County | |
| Source: | San Diego County Probation Department (delinquency and status cases) |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| California: San Francisco County | |
| Source: | San Francisco County Juvenile Probation Department (delinquency and status cases) |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| California: San Joaquin County | |
| Source: | San Joaquin County Probation Department (delinquency and status cases) |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| California: Santa Barbara County | |
| Source: | Santa Barbara County Probation Department (delinquency and status cases) |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| California: Santa Clara County | |
| Source: | Santa Clara County Probation Department (delinquency and status cases) |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| California : Ventura County | |
| Source: | Correction Services Agency (delinquency and status cases) |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| 2. Status figures are cases disposed. | |
| Colorado | |
| Source: | Colorado Judicial Department |
| Mode: | FY 1998 Annual Report: Statistical Supplement |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures
are petitioned case filings for fiscal year 1998. They include delinquency
and status offense cases 2. Status figures were reported with delinquency cases. 3. Dependency figures are petitioned case filings for fiscal year 1998. |
| Connecticut | |
| Source: | Judicial Branch Administration, Court Support Services Division |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases
disposed. 2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Data are reported by juvenile venue districts established by the State. |
| Delaware | |
| Source: | State of Delaware Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | 1998 Statistical Report |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases
filed in fiscal year 1998. 2. There is no statute on status offenders in this State; therefore, the court handles no status offense cases. 3. Dependency figures are cases filed in fiscal year 1998. |
| District of Columbia | |
| Source: | Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
| Mode: | JCS survey form |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases
disposed. They include status offenses and interstate compact figures.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. |
| Florida | |
| Source: | State of Florida Department of Juvenile Justice |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: . | 1. Delinquency figures are cases
disposed. 2. Status figures are cases disposed. They represent only those cases disposed by the Department of Juvenile Justice. Cases disposed by the Florida Network, the Department of Juvenile Justice’s major contracted provider of CINS/FINS centralized intake, are not included in these figures. 3. The figures represent the number of cases disposed by Intake during 1998, which captures only those disposed cases reported to the Department of Children and Family Services by caseworkers correctly completing and submitting a “Client Information Form—CINS/FINS and Delinquency Intake.” The Department of Children and Family Services, having a broad range of operations, reports information on other childcare services not part of the typical juvenile court system. Therefore, the number of nonpetitioned cases may appear higher and fluctuate more than those reported by other information systems that report only juvenile court activity. 4. Florida reported its data by Department of Children and Family Services districts. Therefore, these districts were used as the reporting area. The following is a list of counties within districts. District 1: Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton. District 2: Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla, and Washington. District 3: Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Putnam, Suwannee, and Union. District 4: Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, and St. Johns. District 5: Pasco and Pinellas. District 6: Hillsborough and Manatee. District 7: Brevard, Orange, Osceola, and Seminole. District 8: Charlotte, Collier, De Soto, Glades, Hendry, Lee, and Sarasota. District 9: Palm Beach. District 10: Broward. District 11: Dade and Monroe. District 12: Flagler and Volusia. District 13: Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion, and Sumter. District 14: Hardee, Highlands, and Polk. District 15: Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie. 5. On October 1, 1994, Juvenile Justice separated from the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services to become the Department of Juvenile Justice. |
| Georgia | |
| Source: | Judicial Council of Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | Statistical pages sent to NCJJ |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are the
number of children disposed with a petition for calendar year 1998.
2. Status figures are the number of children disposed with a petition for calendar year 1998. 3. Dependency figures are the number of children disposed with a petition for calendar year 1998. 4. Delinquency, status, and dependency figures may include a small percentage of children disposed without a petition. |
| Hawaii | |
| Source: | Family Court of the First Circuit, The Judiciary, State of Hawaii |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases
disposed. 2. Status figures are cases disposed. |
| Idaho | |
| Source: | Idaho Supreme Court |
| Mode: | Idaho Courts 1998 Annual Report Appendix |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases
disposed. They include status offense cases. 2. Status figures are reported with delinquency cases. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. |
| Illinois | |
| Source: | Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, Probation Division |
| Mode: | 1998 Probation Statistics |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are the
number of petitions filed. 2. Status figures are the number of petitions filed. Minor requiring authoritative intervention (MRAI) and truancy counts were summed to determine status figures. 3. Dependency figures are the number of petitions filed. Neglect/abuse and dependency counts were summed to determine dependency figures. |
| Indiana | |
| Source: | Supreme Court of Indiana, Division of State Court Administration |
| Mode: | 1998 Indiana Judicial Report, Volume II (petitioned) and 1998 Indiana Probation Report (nonpetitioned) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases
disposed. 2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are petitioned cases disposed. |
| Iowa | |
| Source: | State Court Administrator |
| Mode: | Statistical pages sent to NCJJ |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are the
number of petitions. 2. Dependency figures are the number of petitions. 3. Iowa reported its data by judicial district. The following is a list of counties within judicial districts. District 1: Allamakee, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Chickasaw, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Howard, and Winneshiek. District 2: Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Marshall, Mitchell, Pocahontas, Sac, Story, Webster, Winnebago, Worth, and Wright. District 3: Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Emmet, Ida, Kossuth, Lyon, Monona, O’Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, Plymouth, Sioux, and Woodbury. District 4: Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, and Shelby. District 5: Adair, Adams, Clarke, Dallas, Decatur, Guthrie, Jasper, Lucas, Madison, Marion, Polk, Ringgold, Taylor, Union, Warren, and Wayne. District 6: Benton, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Linn, and Tama. District 7: Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Muscatine, and Scott. District 8: Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Mahaska, Monroe, Poweshiek, Van Buren, Wapello, and Washington. |
| Kansas | |
| Source: | Supreme Court of Kansas, Office of Judicial Administration |
| Mode: | Annual Report of the Courts of Kansas |
| Data: | 1. Total figures are filings in the care of children for fiscal year 1998. |
| Kentucky | |
| Source: | Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | Automated data file and statistical pages sent to NCJJ |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases
disposed. 2. Status figures are cases disposed. |
| Louisiana | |
| Source: | Judicial Council of the Supreme Court of Louisiana |
| Mode: | 1998 Annual Report |
| Data: | 1. Total figures are new cases
filed in district court. They include petitioned and nonpetitioned
delinquency, dependency, status offense, special proceeding, and traffic
cases. 2. Figures shown for Caddo, East Baton Rouge, Jefferson, and Orleans Parishes include juvenile felony and misdemeanor charges and status offense cases filed. |
| Maine | |
| Source: | Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | JCS survey form |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are all
offenses committed by juveniles for fiscal year 1998 and include traffic
cases and civil violations. 2. Status offenses are not handled in the juvenile court system. 3. The numbers for the district courts were summed to determine county figures. The following is a list of district courts within counties. Androscoggin: Lewiston and Livermore Falls. Aroostook: Caribou, Fort Kent, Houlton, Madawaska, Presque Isle, and Van Buren. Cumberland: Bridgton and Portland. Franklin: Farmington. Hancock: Bar Harbor and Ellsworth. Kennebec: Augusta and Waterville. Knox: Rockland. Lincoln: Wiscasset. Oxford: Rumford and South Paris. Penobscot: Bangor, Lincoln, Millinocket, and Newport. Piscataquis: Dover-Foxcroft. Sagadahoc: Bath/Brunswick. Somerset: Skowhegan. Waldo: Belfast. Washington: Calais and Machias. York: Biddeford, Springvale, and York. |
| Maryland | |
| Source: | Department of Juvenile Justice |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. |
| Massachusetts | |
| Source: | Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | Annual Report on the State of Massachusetts Court System, FY 1998 |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are complaints disposed
and include motor vehicle violations. 2. Status figures are petitions disposed. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. 4. Figures for Bristol, Hampden, Suffolk, and Worcester Counties are incomplete because the units of counts for the corresponding Juvenile Court Departments were not compatible with the rest of the courts’ unit of count. Essex County data are incomplete because the Amesbury district court data were not reported. |
| Michigan | |
| Source: | State Court Administrative Office, Michigan Supreme Court |
| Mode: | Michigan’s One Court of Justice 1998–99 Annual Report, Circuit Court Statistical Supplement |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are petitions filed.
2. Status figures are petitions filed. 3. Dependency figures are petitions filed. |
| Minnesota | |
| Source: | Minnesota Supreme Court Information System |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. |
| Mississippi | |
| Source: | Mississippi Department of Human Services, Division of Youth Services |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. Only those dependency cases that came to the attention of the Office of Youth Services via court processing are included. |
| Missouri | |
| Source: | Department of Social Services, Division of Youth Services |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. |
| Montana | |
| Source: | Montana Board of Crime Control |
| Mode: | Automated data file (petitioned and nonpetitioned cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. |
| Nebraska | |
| Source: | Nebraska Crime Commission |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are petitioned cases
disposed. 2. Status figures are petitioned cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are petitioned cases disposed. 4. In Douglas County, only those cases processed through the county attorney’s office (petitioned cases) were reported. |
| Nevada | |
| Source: | Division of Children and Family Services, Juvenile Justice Programs Office |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. |
| New Hampshire | |
| Source: | New Hampshire Supreme Court, Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | Statistical pages sent to NCJJ |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are petitions filed.
2. Status figures are petitions filed. 3. Dependency figures are petitions filed. |
| New Jersey | |
| Source: | Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed. |
| New Mexico | |
| Source: | New Mexico Supreme Court |
| Mode: | New Mexico State Courts 1998 Annual Report |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are petitioned referrals
for fiscal year 1998. 2. Status figures are petitioned referrals for fiscal year 1998. 3. New Mexico reported its data by judicial district. The following is the list of counties within judicial districts. District 1: Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, and Santa Fe. District 2: Bernalillo. District 3: Dona Ana. District 4: Guadalupe, Mora, and San Miguel. District 5: Chaves, Eddy, and Lea. District 6: Grant, Hidalgo, and Luna. District 7: Catron, Sierra, Socorro, and Torrance. District 8: Colfax, Taos, and Union. District 9: Curry and Roosevelt. District 10: De Baca, Harding, and Quay. District 11: McKinley and San Juan. District 12: Lincoln and Otero. District 13: Cibola, Sandoval, and Valencia. |
| New York | |
| Source: | Office of Court Administration (petitioned cases) and the State of New York, Division of Probation and |
| Correctional Alternatives (nonpetitioned cases) | |
| Mode: | Statistical pages sent to NCJJ (petitioned cases) and JCS survey form (nonpetitioned cases) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. 4. The petition information reflects data reported to the Office of Court Administration. It may not necessarily reflect the total number of cases processed through the court system. |
| North Carolina | |
| Source: | Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | Statistical pages sent to NCJJ |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are offenses alleged
in juvenile petitions during fiscal year 1998. 2. Status figures are offenses alleged in juvenile petitions during fiscal year 1998. 3. Dependency figures are conditions alleged in juvenile petitions during fiscal year 1998. They include dependent, neglected, and abused conditions. |
| North Dakota | |
| Source: | Supreme Court, Office of State Court Administrator |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. |
| Ohio | |
| Source: | Supreme Court of Ohio |
| Mode: | Ohio Courts Summary, 1998 |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are petition terminations.
2. Status figures are unruly petition terminations. 3. Dependency figures include dependency, neglect, and abuse petition terminations. |
| Ohio: Cuyahoga | |
| Source: | Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Division |
| Mode: | Statistical page sent to NCJJ |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. |
| Oklahoma: | |
| Source: | Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. |
| Oregon | |
| Source: | Judicial Department |
| Mode: | Statistical pages sent to NCJJ |
| Data: | 1. Total figures are juvenile petitions filed. They include delinquency, status offense, dependency, special proceedings, and termination of parental rights cases. |
| Pennsylvania | |
| Source: | Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status offenses in Pennsylvania are classified as dependency cases, which were not reported. 3. Figures presented here do not match those found in the 1998 Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Disposition Report, due to differing units of count. |
| Rhode Island | |
| Source: | Administrative Office of State Courts |
| Mode: | Report on the Judiciary 1998 |
| Data: | 1. Total figures are the number of wayward,
delinquent, dependency, neglect, and abuse filings. 2. The data were reported at the State level; no county breakdown was available. |
| South Carolina | |
| Source: | Department of Juvenile Justice |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. |
| South Dakota | |
| Source: | Unified Judicial System |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Shannon County is an American Indian reservation that handles juvenile matters in the tribal court, which is not part of the State’s juvenile court system. |
| Tennessee | |
| Source: | Tennessee Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. |
| Texas | |
| Source: | Texas Juvenile Probation Commission |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. |
| Utah | |
| Source: | Utah Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are cases disposed. |
| Vermont | |
| Source: | Supreme Court of Vermont, Office of the Court Administrator |
| Mode: | Statistical pages sent to NCJJ |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are petitioned cases
disposed. 2. Status figures are petitioned cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are petitioned cases disposed. |
| Virginia | |
| Source: | Department of Juvenile Justice and the Virginia Supreme Court |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Fairfax City reports with Fairfax County; South Boston City reports with Halifax County. 4. Data for 1998 are incomplete due to reporting difficulties at the local level. |
| Washington | |
| Source: | Office of the Administrator for the Courts |
| Mode: | Automated data file (delinquency and status) and Caseloads of the Courts of Washington 1998 (dependency) |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2 Status figures are cases disposed. 3. Dependency figures are petitioned cases disposed. They include dependency, termination of parent/child relationship, truancy, at-risk youth, and alternative residential placement cases. 4. Wakiakum County reports with Pacific County; Garfield County reports with Asotin County; Franklin County reports with Benton County. 5. King County reports only delinquency data that contribute to an individual’s criminal history record information. 6. Differences in data entry practices among the juvenile courts may contribute to variations in the data. |
| West Virginia | |
| Source: | Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center |
| Mode: | Automated data file |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are cases disposed.
2. Status figures are cases disposed. |
| Wyoming | |
| Source: | Supreme Court of Wyoming Court Services |
| Mode: | Wyoming District Courts 1998 Caseload Statistics |
| Data: | 1. Delinquency figures are petitions filed.
2. Status figures are petitions filed. 3. Dependency figures are petitions filed. |