Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities Series


Investigator(s): Bureau
of Justice Statistics, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention
The Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention,
Correctional, and Shelter Facilities series (formerly called the
Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facility Census series and also
known as the Children in Custody (CIC) census) was originally designed
and sponsored by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and
the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the later studies are sponsored
by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The
series is conducted by the United States Census Bureau. These data
provide information on the population and characteristics of public
(through 1984-1985) or public and private (1986-1987 and beyond)
juvenile facilities in operation in the United States each
February. Annual data for the previous calendar year are included as
well. Residential programs and group homes were included in the census
if they housed three or more residents, if at least 50 percent of the
residents were juveniles, and if accused or adjudicated delinquents
and status offenders were at least 1 percent of their average daily
population. In California, however, all California Youth Authority
Facilities were included in the census.  Juvenile facilities operated
as part of adult jails were excluded, as were nonresidential
facilities, facilities exclusively for drug or alcohol abusers or
nonoffenders, and federal juvenile correctional
facilities.Years Produced: Annually
National Juvenile Corrections Data Summary
The Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention sponsored three series of
national juvenile corrections data collections:Census
of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter
Facilities Series,Census
of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) Series, and
theJuvenile
Residential Facility Census (JRFC) Series.The CJRP
was administered for the first time in 1997. The CJRP replaced the
Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and
Shelter Facilities (formerly called the Juvenile Detention and
Correctional Facility Census series and also known as the Children in
Custody (CIC) census), which had been conducted since the early
1970s. The CJRP differs fundamentally from CIC in that the CIC
collected aggregate data on juveniles held in each facility (e.g.,
number of juveniles in the facility) and the CJRP collects an
individual record on each juvenile held in the residential facility to
provide a detailed picture of juveniles in custody. The companion data
collection to CJRP, the JRFC, is designed to collect information about
the facilities in which juvenile offenders are held.ICPSR
merged data from the CJRP
series with data from the JRFC
series. These studies are included in the Matched
Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP)/Juvenile
Residential Facility Census (JRFC)
Series.


Tags: census-data, correctional-facilities, group-homes, juvenile-detention, juvenile-offenders, juveniles, offenses, restitution-centers, status-offenses
Organization: Department of Justice