Delaware Juvenile Detention Facilities Population Review
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Nov. 23, 2011
ANNOTATION: This report provides information about the juvenile detention population in Delaware. You can use these statistics for comparison to your own agency. Delaware’s juvenile detention population is at its lowest level in over ten years with the number of this population decreasing 58% since 2002. The “understanding of “how” to affect these changes did not come out of a box or from the mimicking of other jurisdictions’ best practices, but out of a gradual awareness of the Delaware juvenile justice community’s combined responsibility and knowledge of how the system works” (p 3). Sections cover: fits and starts—staying with it makes a difference; crime is not the reason; juvenile detention’s legal statuses; detained awaiting a court hearing; detained non-1007 juveniles (1007 lists the crimes juveniles can be admitted to secure detention); administrative holds and violations of probation; sentenced delinquents serving time; and juveniles in detention being held for trial as adults.
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