Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) Series



Investigator(s): Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The Census of Juveniles in
Residential Placement (CJRP) was administered for the first time in
1997 by the United States Bureau of the Census for the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).  The CJRP
provides a detailed picture of juveniles in custody and asks juvenile
residential custody facilities in the United States to describe each
youth assigned a bed in the facility on the specified reference
date. The CJRP reference date was generally the fourth Wednesday in
October. Characteristics of the facility, treatment services, and
facility population are also collected. Some state and regional
agencies provide CJRP data for more than one facility under their
jurisdiction. The CJRP facility inclusion criteria are: (1)
residential facilities in operation on the census reference date, (2)
public or private (or tribal since 1999) operation, and (3) intended
for juvenile offenders (although some hold adults as
well). Specifically excluded are: nonresidential facilities; detention
centers operated as part of adult jails; facilities exclusively for
drug or mental health treatment or for abused or neglected children;
foster homes; and federal correctional facilities (e.g., Immigration
and Naturalization Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States
Marshalls, or Bureau of Prisons). Inclusion criteria for
individual-level data are: (1) youth under age 21, (2) assigned a bed
in a residential facility at the end of the day on the census
reference day, (3) charged with an offense or court-adjudicated for an
offense, (4) and in residential placement because of that
offense.Years Produced: Biennially since 1997, in odd-numbered
years. (Note: The 2005 data collection was conducted in February
2006.)
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.