The report presents national estimates of petitioned and nonpetitioned delinquency cases handled by courts with juvenile jurisdiction, and national estimates of petitioned (formally processed) status offense cases. Together, these sections provide a detailed national portrait of juvenile court cases, including the offenses involved, sources of referral, detention practices, and dispositions ordered. The report includes a brief description of the statistical procedure used to generate these estimates; further information about procedure is available upon request from the Archive. Few terms in the field of juvenile justice have widely accepted definitions. The terminology used in this report has been developed to communicate the findings of the work as precisely as possible without sacrificing their applicability to multiple jurisdictions. There is a complete list, by county, of the number of delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases handled by juvenile courts in 1992. Tables, figures, glossary, appendix