• The robbery arrest rate for black juveniles peaked in 1994 and then fell 63% by 2004. The rate for Asian juveniles peaked in 1996 and then fell 73% by 2004.
• The robbery arrest rate for white juveniles increased 90% between 1988 and 1995. Between the 1995 peak and 2004, the white rate fell 63%, to its lowest level since at least 1980.
• The robbery arrest rate for American Indian juveniles increased sharply in the late 1980s and early 1990s and, like the white rate, peaked in 1995. The rate then fell 76% between 1995 and 2004, to its lowest level in at least two decades.
• However, the juvenile robbery arrest rates grew substantially for all racial groups between 2004 and 2006; then fell through 2007 for Asian, white, and black youth. As a result, in 2007, arrest rates were above the 2004 level for American Indian youth (89%), black youth (50%), and white youth (23%), while the Asian rate was lower (by 24%).
• The black-white disparity in juvenile arrest rates for robbery generally declined between 1980 and 2007. The disparity peaked in 1984, when the black rate was thirteen times higher than the white rate. By 2007, the black rate was about ten times the white rate.

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Internet Citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available:
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05264. 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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