NCJ Number
123446
Date Published
1939
Length
155 pages
Annotation
Data on juvenile cases under State jurisdiction, covering the 2-year period ending December 31, 1936, cover trends in cases of delinquency and dependency and neglect as well as summary statistics on case and offender characteristics; data on Federal juvenile offenders pertain to the number of cases processed and case disposition.
Abstract
Data on delinquency cases cover the number of cases processed, sex, age, race, home conditions, reason for referral to court, place of detention, case disposition, and previous court experience. Data on dependency-and-neglect cases address the number of cases; childrens' age, sex, color, and nativity; place where the child was living when referred to the court; parents' marital status; source and reason for referral to the court; place of detention; and case disposition. Data on Federal juvenile offenders cover the numbers of offenders brought to the attention of the U.S. probation officers, received in jails and held pending trial, discharged from detention, and placed under supervision or received under sentence in jails and in Federal institutions. 74 tables.