• After a period of substantial growth through the 1990s, the male juvenile arrest rate for drug abuse violations generally declined after 1997 while the female rate remained relatively stable.
• By 2007, the drug abuse arrest rate for males declined 23% from its 1997 peak, while the rate for females was just 6% below its 1997 level. For both groups, the arrest rates in 2007 were considerably above the rates in 1980 (55% for males and 46% for females).
• In 2007, the male drug arrest rate was five times the female rate.

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Internet Citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available:
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05244. 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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