# Presentation: 921352

## Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National ReportGraphs from Chapter 7: Juvenile Offendersin Correctional Facilities

- Copyright 2006
- National Center for Juvenile Justice
- 3700 S. Water Street, Suite 200
- Pittsburgh, PA 15203-2363
- Suggested Citation: Snyder, Howard N., and Sickmund, Melissa. 2006. Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
- More information is available online. The full report, report chapters, and data files for the graphs can be downloaded from http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/ojstatbb/nr2006/index.html
- Additional statistics are available from OJJDP's Statistical Briefing Book, located at:
- http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/ojstatbb/index.html

## In 2003, public and private facilities held 32% more delinquents and 32% fewer status offenders than in 1991

## Public facilities drive the trend for the delinquency population; private facilities drive the trend for status offenders

## Between 1991 and 2003, the detained delinquency population in public and private facilities increased 38%

## The number of committed delinquents held in public or private facilities as part of a court-ordered disposition was 28% greater in 2003 than in 1991

## In 2003, the national detention rate was 83 juvenile offenders in custody for every 100,000 juveniles in the population

**Juveniles detained in residential placement per 100,000 in the population**

## In 2003, the national commitment rate was 219 juvenile offenders in custody for every 100,000 juveniles in the population

**Juveniles committed to residential placement per 100,000 in the population**

## Although national custody rates declined from 1997 to 2003, not all states experienced a decline

## More than half of the states had lower commitment rates in 2003 than in 1997

## New Hampshire, Oregon, and Colorado had the highest proportions of person offenders in the custody population; Mississippi, Nebraska, and Wyoming had the lowest

**Percent of juvenile offenders held for person offenses**

## Massachusetts and North Carolina had the highest proportions of person offenders among detained juveniles; Connecticut and Mississippi had the lowest 

**Percent of detained juvenile offenders held for person offenses**

## Oregon and New Hampshire had the highest proportions of person offenders among committed juveniles; Mississippi, Nebraska, and Wyoming had the lowest 

**Percent of committed juvenile offenders held for person offenses**

## The number of male offenders in custody increased 23% from 1991 to 2003

## The number of female offenders in custody increased 52% from 1991 to 2003

## In nearly all states, females represented a relatively small proportion of juvenile offenders in residential placement in 2003

**Female proportion of juveniles in custody**

## Between 1991 and 2003, detained youth constituted about one-quarter of all male delinquents in residential placement

## Between 1991 and 2003, detained youth constituted more than one-third of all female delinquents in residential placement

## In every state except Vermont, the custody rate for black juvenile offenders exceeded the rate for whites

**Ratio of minority custody rate to white rate**

## Ratio of minority rate to white rate for detained offenders in 2003

## Ratio of minority rate to white rate for committed offenders in public facilities in 2003

## In 2003, 34% of committed offenders but just 3% of detained offenders remained in placement 6 months after admission

## Males tended to stay in facilities longer than females in 2003

## Half of detained white offenders remained in custody after 14 days; half of detained minority offenders remained in custody after 15 days

## 2003 time-in-placement patterns largely overlapped for detained youth held for property, drug, public order, and status offenses

## In 2003, committed person offenders were in placement longer than other types of offenders

## Compared with youth in the general population, at all ages, higher proportions of youth who are reentry candidates are themselves parents

## On a typical day in 2004, about 7,000 persons younger than 18 were inmates in jails in the U.S.—most were held as adults

## Between 1996 and 2002, the number of new admissions of youth younger than 18 to state prisons fell 45%

## The population of older inmates grew 16% between 1997 and 2004

## The population of inmates younger than age 18 fell 54% between 1997 and 2004

## Although 20 states had death penalty provisions for offenders age 17 or younger when Roper v. Simmons was decided in 2005, few applied those provisions