Statistical Briefing Book

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Serving Children, Families, and Communities

The juvenile Violent Crime Index arrest rate fell for the second consecutive year and is down 5% since 2006.

Arrests per 100,000 juveniles ages 10-17

OJJDP has recently released the following bulletins:

FAQs on Child Maltreatment and Violent Crime Victimization in the Juveniles as Victims section updated to include the latest data.

FAQs on Juveniles as Offenders section have been updated to include the latest data.

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]

Learn more about juveniles as offenders.

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.

Learn more about OJJDP's data analysis tools.