Title: Juvenile Offenders in Residential Placement:

1997-1999



Series: National Report Series Fact Sheet



Author: Melissa Sickmund



Published: March 2002



Subject: Juvenile corrections, Statistics,

Adjudication juvenile cases



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Juvenile Offenders in Residential Placement: 1997-

1999



by Melissa Sickmund



There were 108,931 juvenile offenders in residential

placement on October 27, 1999



In October 1999, the Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) conducted the second

wave of data collection for the Census of Juveniles

in Residential Placement (CJRP). Placement facilities

that hold or can hold accused or adjudicated juvenile

offenders (delinquents or status offenders) were

asked to provide information on all juvenile

offenders in residence on the last Wednesday of

October. Responses to the CJRP identified 134,011

persons assigned beds on that date in 3,712 public,

private, and tribal facilities. Individual-level data

were collected on residents who were less than 21

years old; assigned a bed in a residential facility

at the end of the day on October 27, 1999; charged

with an offense or court adjudicated for an offense;

and placed at the facility because of the offense.



There were 108,931 juvenile offenders who met these

CJRP inclusion criteria. These offenders were held in

1,136 public, 1,794 private, and 9 tribal facilities.



The population of juvenile offenders in placement

rose in some States and fell in others



The population of juvenile offenders in residential

placement increased in 32 States between 1997 and

1999. The increases ranged from 1 to 33%, and in half

of these States, the increase was 10% or greater. In

the remaining 18 States and the District of Columbia,

the decrease in the proportion of juvenile offenders

in residential placement ranged from 1 to 38%. In

half of these States, the declines were 6% or more.



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For further information



This Fact Sheet is based on the author's analysis of

the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement 1997

& 1999 (machine-readable data files). For more census

information, visit the OJJDP Statistical Briefing

Book (ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/index.html) and click

on "Juveniles in corrections" or "Census of Juveniles

in Residential Placement."



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Melissa Sickmund, Ph.D., is a Senior Research

Associate at the National Center for Juvenile

Justice. This work is part of the National Juvenile

Justice Data Analysis Project, which is supported by

OJJDP funds.



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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention is a component of the Office of Justice

Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice

Assistance, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the

National Institute of Justice, and the Office for

Victims of Crime.







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