U.S. Department of Justice

Office of Justice Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

John J. Wilson, Acting Administrator June 2000 #08

Census of Juveniles in Residential

Placement Databook

by Melissa Sickmund

The online CJRP Databook provides information

on juvenile offenders in residential facilities

The Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook

(CJRP Databook) is an online interactive data dissemination tool

developed for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention (OJJDP) by the National Center for Juvenile Justice

(NCJJ). A component of OJJDP’s Statistical Briefing Book found

on the OJJDP Web site (www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org), the CJRP Databook

enables users to access CJRP data quickly and easily without

using statistical analysis software. The initial release of the CJRP

Databook contains more than 1,700 State and national CJRP tables.

Users can study the demographic, offense, placement status, and

facility characteristics of juveniles in residential placement as

recorded for the CJRP 1997 census date, which was October 29.

Data displays will be added to the Databook periodically. When

1999 CJRP data become available, trend tables will be added.

The CJRP Databook provides better access to

better data

OJJDP designed CJRP to be a comprehensive, manageable, and

reliable statistical series providing information about juvenile

offenders in residential placement. In October 1997, CJRP

replaced the earlier Children in Custody (CIC) biennial facility

census. The new census meets a pressing need for information

that can address a wide variety of questions about juvenile

detention, corrections, and placement.

For each juvenile held in a residential facility, CJRP collects an

individual record with information such as date of birth, race, sex,

and most serious offense. CJRP also captures information about

the juvenile’s legal status, including court of jurisdiction (criminal court or juvenile court), placement status (detained pre- or

postadjudication or committed), security arrangements, and the

jurisdiction where the offense occurred.

With a few clicks of a mouse, users can view their choice of

tables in the CJRP Databook. Profile tables display data for a

How To Access the CJRP Databook

The Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook

can be found at the Statistical Briefing Book of OJJDP’s Web

site: www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/openpage.asp.
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particular State or for the United States as a whole. A dropdown

menu allows the user to select a jurisdiction of interest. The

initial release of the Databook contains profiles of juveniles in

placement by age, sex, race, offense, and placement status, and

other variables will be added in the future. State comparison

tables show a row for each State and a row for the United States

as a whole. Users can compare States in terms of their juvenile

placement population demographics, offense, placement status,

and facility type. For each profile or comparison table, users can

choose cell count or percentage displays. Data displays can be

printed directly from the browser or downloaded and saved as

files that can easily be imported into spreadsheet software. The

CJRP Databook also includes information about CJRP data

collection methods and a copy of the data collection form.

CJRP will continue gathering data as a

biennial census

As with CIC, CJRP is conducted biennially in odd-numbered

years, and the Bureau of the Census will continue to be the data

collection agent. The census day for CJRP is the last Wednesday

in October; to date, CJRP has been conducted on October 29,

1997, and October 27, 1999.

A note on confidentiality

By statute and regulation, OJJDP must protect the privacy of

individuals included in its surveys. In the case of CJRP, OJJDP

must ensure that no juvenile can be identified from publicly

available data (tabular or electronic). To comply with this requirement, OJJDP requires all published table cells to be rounded to

the nearest multiple of three. The table cells are rounded after the

table has been produced from the underlying data. Each cell is

rounded independently, without consideration as to row or column

totals. As a result, in many tables the internal cells do not add to

the marginal totals. Rates and percentages presented from CJRP

are also based on rounded totals. More information on this rounding

rule is available on the CJRP Databook Web site.

For further information

OJJDP will publish CJRP statistics through a series of Fact Sheets

and Bulletins that address juvenile justice issues. Reference tables

and general analyses will be published separately. Special analyses

covering such issues as gender, race, and offense types will be

published in compendium publications that use several data sources.

Information from CJRP can be found in the following publications that are available from the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse,

800–638–8736, or online at www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org:

◆ Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report (NCJ

178257, 1999); CD–ROM (NCJ 178991, 1999).

◆ Juvenile Offenders in Residential Placement, 1997 (Fact Sheet

#96, 1999).

Melissa Sickmund is a Senior Research Associate with NCJJ. This Fact

Sheet was prepared as part of the National Juvenile Justice Data

Analysis Project.

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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau

of Justice Assistance, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National

Institute of Justice, and the Office for Victims of Crime.