• Unique in the set of Property Crime Index offenses, the juvenile arrest rate for burglary declined almost consistently and fell substantially between 1980 and 2007, down 69%.
• This large fall in juvenile burglary arrests from 1980 through 2007 was not mirrorred in the adult statistics. For example, between 1998 and 2007, the number of juvenile burglary arrests fell 30%, while adult burglary arrests increased 6%.
• In 1980, 45% of all burglary arrests were arrests of a juvenile; in 2007, reflecting the greater decline in juvenile than adult arrests, just 27% of burglary arrests were juvenile arrests.

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Internet Citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available:
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05207. October 24, 2008.

Adapted from Puzzanchera, C. Juvenile Arrests 2007 [Forthcoming]. Washington, D.C.: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

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