An introduction describes the history of Pennsylvania's juvenile court statistics, data collection methods, related publications, archived data files, and terms of availability. Variables cover demographic information on the juveniles, education, family background, referral information, charges, care received, disposition, involved criminal justice personnel, and special correctional conditions. The information provided in the codebook for each entry covers column/width, variable number, the variable label, a description of the variable contents, the code values occurring in the data for the variable, textual definitions of the codes, designation of missing data, and an explanatory note. Appended juvenile court statistical card, offense seriousness hierarchy listing, and original data collector's statement of acceptance