The annual bulletin, Juvenile Arrests 2008 summarizes juvenile crimes known to the police and arrests made during 2008. In 2008, U.S. law enforcement agencies arrested an estimated 2.11 million persons younger than age 18, a 3-percent decline over 2007.
Half (50%) of the number of homicides committed by known juvenile offenders in 2008 involved multiple offenders. [Read more]
Between 1980 and 2008, the annual number of known juvenile offenders who killed family members changed little, in stark contrast to the number of those who killed acquaintances and strangers. [Read more]
Data
analysis and dissemination tools available through the Statistical
Briefing Book give users quick and easy access to detailed
statistics on a variety of juvenile justice topics. These
tools allow users to create national, state, and county
tables on juvenile populations, arrests, court cases, and
custody populations.