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Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1997 Update on Violence

NCJ Number
165703
Author(s)
Melissa Sickmund; Howard N. Snyder; Eileen Poe-Yamagata
Date Published
August 1997
Length
55 pages
Annotation
This statistical summary presents raw data needed to address the problems of juvenile crime and victimization.
Abstract
The report includes statistical data and discussion concerning: (1) Victims (homicide victims; suicide; victimization; abuse and neglect); (2) Offenders (homicide offenders; high school students and weapons; victim reports of juvenile offenders; juvenile arrests; violent crime arrest trends; offense-specific arrest and clearance trends; state and county violent crime arrest trends; juvenile court careers; time of day; gun use; state legislatures on juvenile crime; juvenile transfers to criminal court; trying juveniles as adults; judicial waiver; sentencing serious and violent juvenile offenders; violent juvenile court cases; Canadian juvenile violent crime); and (3) Corrections (custody population; state custody populations; crowding in custody facilities; minority overrepresentation in custody facilities; youth held in adult jails; youth and the death penalty). Figures, tables, sources