OJJDP Bulletin Provides Juvenile Arrest Data for 2007
April 30, 2009
 The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has published "Juvenile Arrests 2007." The 12-page bulletin draws on data from the FBI's "Crime in the United States 2007" to analyze trends in juvenile arrests.
In 2007, U.S. law enforcement agencies made an estimated 2.18 million arrests of persons under age 18. There were 2 percent fewer juvenile arrests in 2007 than in 2006, and juvenile violent crime arrests declined 3 percent, reversing the modest upward trend over the previous two years.
Resources:
"Juvenile Arrests 2007" (NCJ 225344) is available at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/p ublications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=247324.
Print copies may be ordered online.
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