Custody Data (1997-Present)

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

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Q:	Did private facilities hold mostly girls in 1997?
A:	Males account for the vast majority of the offender population in both public and private facilities.

Juveniles in residential placement by facility type and sex, 1997

Type of facility	Total		Male		Female

All facilities	105,790		91,471		14,319
Public	76,335		67,446		8,889
Private	29,455		24,024		5,430

All facilities	100	%	100	%	100	%
Public	72		74		62
Private	28		26		38

Sex profile
All facilities	100	%	86	%	14	%
Public	100		88		12
Private	100		82		18

Note: To protect the confidentiality of juvenile residents all published data from the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) are rounded to the nearest multiple of three. Each cell is rounded independently, without consideration as to row or column totals. As a result, in many tables, the internal cells do not add to the marginal totals. Rates and percentages presented from CJRP are also based on rounded totals. More information on this rounding rule is available on the CJRP Databook Web site.

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Although females make up half of the juvenile population they accounted for just 14% of youth in residential placement. The female proportion was somewhat greater in private facilities (18%) than in public facilities (12%).
Private facilities hold a greater proportion of female juvenile offenders (38%) than male juvenile offenders (26%).

Internet citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/ojstatbb/corrections/qa08503.asp?qaDate=20010228. Released on February 28, 2001.

Adapted from Sickmund, M. (2000). Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement 1997. Pittsburgh, PA: National Center for Juvenile Justice.

Data Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement 1997 [machine-readable data files]. Washington, D.C.: OJJDP.