• Since 1980, drug abuse violation arrest rates for white juveniles generally declined through 1991 while the black rate soared. Between 1980 and the peak year of 1995, the black arrest rate for drug abuse violations increased nearly 350%. The declining trend in the white arrest rate turned around in the early 1990s, but not until 1994 did the rate surpass its 1980 level. By 2007, the white rate was 36% above its 1980 level.
• Despite the substantial decline between 1995 and 2002 for black juveniles, the black rate was twice the white rate in 2007.
• The trend in the American Indian arrest rate essentially paralleled the trend in the white rate. Both rates increased substantially from 1991 to 2007, with the American Indian rate increasing far more than the white rate (332% and 200%, respectively).
• The rate for Asian juveniles declined considerably between the early 1980s and 1989 and then more than tripled between 1989 and 1999. This large increase returned the Asian rate to its levels of the early 1980s; however, the arrest rate then decreased 44% from 1999 to 2007.

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Internet Citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available:
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05274. October 24, 2008.

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