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Juvenile arrests for property crimes declined substantially in 1998 As with violent crime, the FBI assesses trends in the volume of property crimes by monitoring four offenses that are consistently reported by law enforcement agencies nationwide and are pervasive in all geographical areas of the country. These four crimes, which form the Property Crime Index, are burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
 For the period from 1980 through 1997, during which juvenile violent crime arrests increased and then decreased precipitously, juvenile property crime arrest rates remained relatively constant. Between 1980 and 1997, the juvenile Property Crime Index arrest rate reached its highest level in 1991 (2,610) and its lowest level in 1984 (2,220). Between 1997 and 1998, however, the rate declined 14% and fell to its lowest level in a generation. In 1998, law enforcement made 1,960 arrests for Property Crime Index offenses for every 100,000 youth between 10 and 17 years of age.
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