• Violent Crime Index arrest rates increased substantially for juveniles in all racial groups between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. The rate peaked in 1994 for black, white, and American Indian juveniles. For Asians, the rate peaked in 1996. Following these peaks, the rates fell for all racial groups through 2004 - down 61% for Asians, 56% for blacks, 45% for American Indians, and 42% for whites. Between 2004 and 2007, Violent Crime Index arrest rates were essentially constant for white and American Indian juveniles, decreased 27% for Asian juveniles and increased 21% for black juveniles
• The Violent Crime Index arrest rate in 2007 for black juveniles (903) was 5 times the rate for American Indian juveniles (183) and white juveniles (180), and sixteen times the rate for Asian juveniles (57).
• The disparity between black and white juvenile arrest rates for violent crimes declined between 1980 and 2007. In 1980, the black juvenile Violent Crime Index arrest rate was 6.3 times the white rate; by 2007, the arrest rate disparity had declined to 5.0.

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Internet Citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available:
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05261. October 24, 2008.

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